Hello (in navy blue, Times New Roman text) Éloïse, Outlook is more than happy to bring along the formatting, leading to situations like this: In my case, I’m a little bit paranoid about misspelling people’s names when I reply to emails, so I practically always copy and paste people’s names into the introduction of my email. The struggle is real:ĭoes anyone ever want to paste the formatting? why is this a default? #crankypants- Cyd Harrell August 30, 2017 You hit “Paste”, and your Microsoft Word freezes up for a painful few seconds, then proceeds to turn the formatting of the entire remainder of your Word document into a strange and bewildering hybrid of the fonts and colours of the website you just pasted. You’re copying and pasting something from some obligatory government website into some obligatory government Word document. We’ve all been there, fellow public servants. Plus, it lets you define how you want cutting and pasting to work most of the time (click Set Default Paste under the icons)–including getting rid of the Paste Options button if it still seems like a pesky fly.Public service tech tip: Paste without fonts and formatting Word gives you other options for copying and pasting things such as bulleted or numbered lists, or hyperlinks. Merge Formatting: Keeps the formatting of the text you copied without changing the formatting of the destination document, e.g., if you cut and paste a sentence from another document that had a different font type or size.Kept Text Only: Discards both the text formatting AND the non-text elements you copied, such as pictures or table, and then matches the formatting where you pasted the text.Use Destination Styles: Matches the formatting where you pasted your text.

Keep Source Formatting: Keeps the formatting of the text you copied.

Roll your mouse over the icons and you can see how your pasted text will look before you click. The options you’ll see depend on where you’re cutting and pasting from and to, e.g., from within or between documents.

Using the Paste Options buttonĬlick the down-arrow on the Paste Options button and you’ll see a menu with icons that lets you format copied text in different ways. Put your best words forward with an Office 365 subscription.

Change source formatting in word