Word insert text only

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Ali Forelli, a Product Manager on the Word team working on Accessibility features. I’m happy to announce that the Paste Text Only shortcut is available in Word for Windows and Word for Mac!

Paste Text Only shortcut in Word

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just copy and paste text from a website into your document and have it look good? Imagine not having to manually remove the source formatting like font size, type, or background color.

You might be familiar with this shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V (Cmd + Shift + V on Mac)—it’s also called “keep text only” or “paste plain text”—because of its popularity in other applications like Microsoft Teams, Word for the web, Google, and Gmail. No matter what you call it, the Paste Text Only shortcut is now available in Word for Windows and Word Mac.

How it works 

1. Select a range of text from your current document, or another document or
2. In your Word document, place the cursor where you want the text to appear.
3. Press Ctrl + Shift + V (Cmd + Shift + V on Mac). Notice how the pasted content matches the neighboring text formatting, rather than preserving its original font size, color, etc.

Feedback in action

Word has been a product since 1983 (Word turns 40 this year!). This long-standing legacy creates a precedent for established user expectations. While the engineering team continues to work on new features for improved user experiences with refreshed and more advanced technology, we don’t always have the opportunity to revise pre-existing behavior.

In the case of keyboard shortcuts, the industry standard has diverged from Word’s initial implementation of these features. Indeed, users expect that Ctrl + Shift + V will paste plain text, so when this doesn’t work, the experience can be frustrating. The Word team heard about this problem from users, so we’re updating keyboard shortcuts as a direct response to your feedback. Accessibility is a priority for Word, and we want to make the cut, copy, paste experience as seamless as possible. 

Other changes to shortcuts

By updating the paste text only shortcut, some existing keyboard shortcuts have changed. Below is a table of the full list of changes.

Want to restore the previous shortcut settings?

To restore the keyboard shortcut assignments to their original settings, you can head over to the Customize Keyboard Shortcuts help article. Below you will find a table of the command names which you may want to reset.

Note: The Copywrite command is in the Common Symbols category of the Customize Keyboard dialog. All other commands can be found in the All Commands category.

Tips and tricks

• To disable numbers and bullet icons from being pasted in Paste Text Only: 

1. 1. Select File> Options > Advanced.
   2. Navigate to the Cut, copy, and paste
   3. Clear the Keep bullets and numbers when pasting text with Keep Text Only option check box.

• To use the Paste Options floatie to choose other paste options:

1. 1. Paste content in your document, and notice the collapsed Paste Options floatie will appear next to your pasted content.
   2. Press Ctrl to open the Paste Options floatie or click with your mouse to expand.

1. 1. Choose one of the available past options.

• To change your default paste options:

1. 1. Select from the Paste Options floatie or go to File > Options > Advanced.
   2. Navigate to the Cut, copy and paste section.

1. 1. For each option, you can choose between Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, or Keep Text Only.

Availability

These shortcuts are available to M365 Home and M365 Business Standard Beta Channel users running: 

• Windows: Version 16.0.15831.20174 or later
• Mac: Version 16.67.1113.0 or later

Don’t have it yet? It’s probably us, not you.

Features are released over some time to ensure things are working smoothly. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as an Insider, have had the opportunity to try it.

Feedback 

Please share your feedback with us directly from Word. Click Help > Feedback and tell us what you think!

Вы устали от того, что после вставки скопированного текста в Word, вместе с ним копируются цвета, форматирование, ссылки и всё остальное? Вот как Вы можете защититься от засорения Вашего документа неформатированным текстом.

По умолчанию, Word сохраняет форматирование текста и других объектов, которые Вы вставляете в документ, включая ссылки, цвета, шрифт и прочее. В лучшем случае это может немного раздражать, в худшем – испортить всё остальное форматирование Вашего документа.

Если Вы копируете большой объём текста или картинок с сайта, и вдруг интернет-соединение стало медленным, Word может даже на некоторое время зависнуть, пока получает и обрабатывает данные. Это совсем не весело!

В Microsoft Word есть одна спасительная возможность: Вы можете щелкнуть маленькое всплывающее окно под вставленным текстом и выбрать Plain Text (Только текст), чтобы оставить только текст и никаких других деталей форматирования. Тем не менее, это потребует ещё 2 дополнительных щелчка мышью. Если же Вы постоянно хотите вставлять только текст и больше ничего, то гораздо выгоднее будет установить это в настройках по умолчанию. К счастью, сделать это можно очень просто. Если Вы только что вставили текст, нажмите на всплывающее окно и выберите пункт Set Default Paste (Вставка по умолчанию).

Есть другой путь – открыть диалоговое окно Word Options (Параметры Word). Для этого перейдите на вкладку File (Файл) > Options (Параметры), если у Вас Word 2007, нажмите кнопку Office > Word Options (Параметры Word).

Выберите категорию Advanced (Дополнительно), промотайте вниз до раздела Cut, copy, and paste (Вырезание, копирование и вставка).

Здесь Вы можете изменить большое количество настроек вставки. Чтобы по умолчанию включить вставку только текста, выберите Keep Text Only (Сохранить только текст) в выпадающих меню. Вы можете изменить установки для всех опций или только для избранных. Часто мы хотим сохранить форматирование, когда копируем в пределах одного документа, поэтому первую опцию оставим без изменений, а для всех остальных установим Keep Text Only (Сохранить только текст).

После того как изменения настроек сделаны, попробуйте вставить тот же текст, чтобы убедиться, что всё работает правильно. Теперь вставится только текст, даже если были скопированы картинки, ссылки и различное форматирование. Такие установки по умолчанию довольно удобны, так как значительно ускоряют работу.

Если же Вы решите вставить текст вместе с форматированием, ссылками и прочим содержимым, просто щелкните по всплывающему меню и выберите Keep Source Formatting (Сохранить исходное форматирование). В этом случае Вам придётся делать лишние действия мышью, только если необходимо вставить дополнительное содержимое.

Таким образом, Вы можете сэкономить своё время и извлекать только нужный текст с веб-сайтов, других программ и прочих источников без задержек из-за копирования большого объёма и, не тратя драгоценное время на обработку вставленного содержимого.

In Word 2003 and 2007, you couldn’t easily paste copied text as unformatted text. You either had to go through several clicks in the menus, or set up a macro and assign a keyboard shortcut to it (see this blog post for how to do this in Word 2003/2007: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/word-keyboard-shortcut-to-paste-unformatted-text/).

However, in Word 2010 you don’t have to do any of that as there’s a quick and easy way to paste as unformatted text using the keyboard. Laura alerted me to it in her 13 November 2012 comment on the Word 2003/2007 post above, and, with some more help a few days later from Xuberi, I finally got it!

To paste copied text as unformatted text in Word 2010 using the keyboard:

1. Press Ctrl+v to paste the copied text into your document.
2. Press and then release Ctrl to activate the Paste Options icon.
3. Press t to select the ‘Text only’ option (pressing t is a separate action to pressing Ctrl in step 2 — DO NOT press them together otherwise it won’t work).

More detailed explanation:

What happens in Word 2010 when you press Ctrl+v (Step 1) is that you get the Paste Options icon, and it has (Ctrl) next to it, indicating that the Ctrl key activates the options (you don’t get this in Word 2003 or 2007):

So when you press and release Ctrl (step 2 above), the Paste Options display:

Now you press the key for the paste option you want — hover over each option’s icon to see which key activates it:

The keyboard options are:

• H — Use destination theme
• K — Keep source formatting
• M — Merge formatting
• T — Keep text only (the unformatted text option).

See also:

• How to paste as unformatted text in Word 2003/2007: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/word-keyboard-shortcut-to-paste-unformatted-text/
• Office 2010: Paste options button not displaying: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/office-2010-paste-options-button-not-displaying/

[Links last checked November 2012]

We’ll talk about how to Insert Text in MS Word in this chapter. A lot of the time, you have to go back and add more text to an existing line. There are two ways to insert text to existing text in Microsoft Word, and we’ll show you how to use both of them.

What is Inserting Text in MS Word?

Inserting text is one of the many things that MS-Word can do. For example, if a user is writing something like an article or assignment, he or she might realize that they forgot to write something in the middle, at the beginning, or anywhere else in the document. So, in this case, the feature that comes in very handy is Inserting text, which will do the work for the user.

What is the Use of Inserting Text?

How to Insert Text Quickly in Your Word Document

Insert Text Using Textbox

The MS Word allows us to Insert Text boxes anywhere within the document where required. This is another excellent tool provided by Microsoft Word.

A text box is an object you can add to your document that lets you put and type text anywhere in your file. Text boxes can be useful for drawing attention to specific text and can also be helpful when you need to move text around in your document

 Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Now, go to “insert tab” above. (As shown in the image below)

Now, In the insert tab, there is a section called “Text“. 

Now, In section Text, there is an option called “Text box“. Click on that option of Text box. Then, Select one of the text boxes available as per you choice. Here, for example, a simple text box has been selected.

Now, insert text or type anything that you want.

Summary

In summary, we’ve talked about Inserting text in MS Word as well as what those terms mean. Also, we learn different ways to insert text in a document.

We hope this guide helps you as you plan to create a document in MS Word.

In this chapter, we will discuss how to insert text in Word 2010. Many times it is required to go back and insert additional text in an existing line. Microsoft Word provides two ways to insert text in existing text and we will show how to use both the methods of inserting text −

Insert and Add Text

First we will see how inserted text will be added into the existing content without replacing any existing content.

Step 1 − Click the location where you wish to insert text; you can also use the keyboard arrows to locate the place where the text needs to be inserted.

Step 2 − Start typing the text that needs to be inserted. Word inserts the text to the left of the insertion point, moving the existing text to the right

Insert and Replace Text

In the Insertion mode, text will be added into the existing content but same time it will over write all the content which comes in its way.

Step 1 − Right-click the status bar and select the Overtype option from the displayed menu.

When you select the Overtype option, the status bar will show the insert mode as shown below −

Step 2 − Click on the Insert text available at the status bar and it will switch to the Overtype mode as shown below −

Step 3 − Now click the location where the text needs to be inserted or you can use the keyboard arrows to locate the place where the text needs to be inserted.

Step 4 − Start typing the text that needs to be inserted. Word will replace the existing text with the newly typed text without moving the position of the exiting test.

Note − Microsoft Word 2010 disabled the functionality of the Insert key and it does nothing, so you will have to follow-up with the above mentioned procedure to turn-on or turn-off the Insert mode.

Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Inserting Text with a Shortcut Key.

Brendan would like to know if there is a way to assign a shortcut of my choosing, say Ctrl+J, to a sentence. This would mean every time he hits Ctrl+J it would paste that sentence. Brendan knows about AutoText, but he can’t see a way to assign a shortcut like Ctrl+J to a particular AutoText entry.

Actually, AutoText includes sort of a built-in shortcut key. Once you create the AutoText entry, you can type the mnemonic for the entry and press F3. Word expands the mnemonic to its longer form. If you want to have a special shortcut key for a particular AutoText entry, you can follow these steps:

1. Define your AutoText entry as you normally would.
2. Choose Customize from the Tools menu. Word displays the Customize dialog box.
3. Click on the Keyboard button. Word displays the Customize Keyboard dialog box. (See Figure 1.)



Figure 1. The Customize Keyboard dialog box.

4. Position the insertion point in the Press New Shortcut Key text box.
5. Press the shortcut key you want to use. For instance, if you want to use Ctrl+J, then press Ctrl+J. Just below the Current Keys text box you should see the name of any commands currently using this shortcut. (In this case, Ctrl+J is used to justify a paragraph so you may want to use a different shortcut.)
6. In the Categories list scroll down and select AutoText. The defined AutoText entries appear at the right side of the dialog box.
7. In the list of AutoText entries, select the one you defined in step 1.
8. Click the Assign button to assign the shortcut.
9. Click on Close to dismiss the Customize Keyboard dialog box.
10. Click on Close to dismiss the Customize dialog box.

There are other options besides using AutoText, however. You could, of course, record a macro of you typing the desired text. The macro could then be assigned to a shortcut key and would be replayed (again typing the text) anytime you invoke the shortcut key.

Perhaps the easiest alternative, however, is to create an AutoCorrect entry for your text. All you need to do is come up with a non-ambiguous series of keystrokes, such as cj, and then have Word replace that text with something else. In other words, the program can «correct» the characters cj, replacing them with the longer sentence. There is no shortcut key to remember in this instance, just the short text you want «corrected.» (How you create Autocorrect entries has been discussed in other issues of WordTips.)

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