Save your expand and conclude Microsoft Visual Basic (ALT+Q).
Back in Word, favourite Microsoft Office button in the supremacy left-hand corner.
Select “Word Options”.
Click the Customize button down at the tushy of the “Word Options” dialog to engender up the “Customize Keyboard” dialog.
Select Customize on the formerly larboard promptly available side.
(Click to kick off larger cast.)
In the “Customize Keyboard” dialog, favourite Macros on the formerly larboard promptly available side.
Click in “Press unproven shortcut key” and genre the shortcut you necessitate to usage.
Select the macro you just made (PasteUnformattedText) on the freedom promptly available side. I usage “CTRL+SHIFT+V”.
Click Assign and then Close to lam on dated of the “Customize Keyboard” dialog.
It says this is currently assigned to something else, but I don’t desire affect – I override the olden nomination because it isn’t something I usage.
Click OK to lam on dated of the “Word Options” dialog.
Word 2003 and earlier
Press Alt+F8 to engender up the Macros dialog.
You can barest occasionally usage that shortcut to access your macro.
In “Macro name”, infiltrate PasteUnformattedText.
This opens Microsoft Visual Basic and creates a unproven Sub (Sub Procedure), called PasteUnformattedText.
Click Create.
Make unfaltering the Sub Procedure is in Normal > Modules > General.
Back in Word, favourite Tools > Customize to engender up the Customize dialog. Type the following scheme into the Sub Procedure.
Selection.PasteUnformattedText DataType:=wdPasteText
Save your expand and conclude Microsoft Visual Basic (ALT+Q).
Select the Commands bill.
On the freedom promptly available side, favourite Normal.NewMacros.PasteUnformattedText (the macro you just created).
On the formerly larboard promptly available side, favourite Macros.
Click the Keyboard button down at the tushy of the “Customize” dialog to engender up the “Customize Keyboard” dialog. I usage “CTRL+SHIFT+V”.
Click in “Press unproven shortcut key” and genre the shortcut you necessitate to usage. It says this is currently assigned to something else, but I don’t desire affect – I override the olden nomination because it isn’t something I usage.
Click OK to lam on dated of the “Word Options” dialog.
Click Assign and then Close to lam on dated of the “Customize Keyboard” dialog.
You can barest occasionally usage that shortcut to access your macro.
Firefox’s Copy Plain Text add-on.
Other Links
Other pages that helped me clear the MO this admittance.
LifeHacker’s article Create A Hotkey To Paste Plain Text In Microsoft Word.
Meryl’s Notes Blog article: Paste Special in Microsoft Word
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