The two most recent versions of Microsoft's word processor let you paste plain text rather than formatted text and graphics when you press Ctrl-V or click the Paste button. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default. Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

There have already been tentative attempts in this direction, and additional keyboard shortcuts were added to Word a year ago to enable pasting without formatting. Now Microsoft is following suit. The ...

The default pasting behavior of Microsoft Word is a nightmare, and has been forever. If you want to add a text or image using the standard option, you can easily mess up the entire formatting in the ...

TL;DR: Anyone who regularly uses Microsoft Word probably knows the frustration of pasting text into a document only to see it ruin the formatting because it retained its original size, color, and font ...

Make sure the text and graphics you paste into Word 2007 documents don't bring their formatting along for the ride. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis ...

If you've been a longtime Microsoft Word user, you must be familiar with its default paste option, which retains the source formatting from where the content is copied. Copying and pasting is one of ...

Document formatting consistency serves as a hallmark of professionalism in presentations, proposals and reports. Faced with the formidable range of formatting parameters you can apply in Microsoft ...