{"id":59,"date":"2005-12-30T06:20:37","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:20:29","slug":"word-tip-3-matching-destination-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/word\/2005\/12\/30\/word-tip-3-matching-destination-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Tip 3: Matching destination formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I&#8217;d sort of vaguely noticed this little clipboard icon when pasting into Word from some other program or document, especially when copying out of a web page:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/images\/wordpaste.png' alt='Word paste icon' width='96' height='74'\/><\/p>\n<p>I mostly ignored it, and it seemed to go away without getting in my way. I just figured it was some symptom of Word featuritis, but one day when I was bored I clicked on it just to see what would happen, and am I glad I did. Hiding inside this unassuming little icon was a cure for one of my constant peeves when working with Word.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/images\/wordpaste2.png' alt='Word paste popup menu' width='224' height='108'\/><\/p>\n<p>This lets me change the formatting of whatever I&#8217;m pasting in to match the target formatting. Alternately I can paste in as plain text with no formatting at all. This doesn&#8217;t matter a lot when I&#8217;m pasting in source code from BBEdit or Eclipse, but it&#8217;s hugely useful when I&#8217;m copying something out of a web page and pasting it into a book or article (with appropriate citation of course). This is major time saver for my workflow. If you&#8217;re tired of your copying web text and then having to carefully reapply formatting so all the styles and fonts match up, this little icon is a godsend. I&#8217;m not sure when Microsoft added this, but whenever they did I wish I&#8217;d realized what it did sooner. (Update: on the Mac this icon seems to have arrived with Word 2004; i.e. version 11.2. I&#8217;m not sure when or if it appeared on Windows.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I&#8217;d sort of vaguely noticed this little clipboard icon when pasting into Word from some other program or document, especially when copying out of a web page: I mostly ignored it, and it seemed to go away without getting in my way. I just figured it was some symptom of Word featuritis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}