When you paste text copied from a web page or another document, it often brings along its font, text size, and even color.

I spent several hours last week cleaning up the errant formatting in a complicated, 30-page Word document that was loaded with custom styles. It seems the author pasted material into the file from ...

A few colleagues were talking in a Slack team the other day about discovering “paste without formatting” and kicking themselves for only learning about it relatively recently. I confess despite my ...

Microsoft finally adds shortcuts for pasting text without formatting in OneNote, a long-awaited feature. Pasting in plain text prevents mismatched fonts and styles from other sources in your notes.

To copy and paste in Excel while preserving formatting, use Paste Special instead of standard paste. After copying your cells (Ctrl+C), right-click the destination and select "Paste Special," or use ...

Windows only: Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting. PureText strips all of the rich formatting from ...

TL;DR: Anyone who regularly uses Microsoft Word probably knows the frustration of pasting text into a document only to see it ruin the formatting because it retained its original size, color, and font ...

It’s not easy to fool Excel, but with a few extra clicks, you can work around this odd pasting behavior. If you paste formatted values into a cell with another applied format, the pasted format wins.

Your worksheets will be more polished and easy to read if you learn a few sophisticated formatting techniques. Most Excel users know how to apply basic numeric and text formats. But users who push ...