Automatically Format Pasted Text To Match Your Current Doument in Word 2007

August 10, 2010

As I a sure you have noticed when you copy from one document into a Word document, the pasted text retains its original format. In Word 2003 you could customize (or turn off) the  Smart Tag feature which let you change the format of the pasted text to either plain text or the matching format of the Word document. That was better than manually formatting the text but you still had to set the Smart Tag feature for each time you copied and pasted text.  Word 2007 changes all that, you can set your own default paste option. Read more

Customize Word's Smart Cut and Paste

August 9, 2010

Have you copied a block of text from one document into another only to have it show up all wonky and strange?  Is your paragraph spacing off or leading spaces missing?  Say thank you to Word’s Smart Cut and Paste Feature.  This feature is designed to enable Word to automatically adjust formatting when you paste text between documents.  The problem is, you might not want Word to change anything. Read more