<p>I have been playing with this for a while, but the closest I have gotten is a button that opens the <code>Paste Special</code> dialog box and requires another couple of mouse clicks to paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text. </p>

<p>So often I am doing a <code>copy-paste</code> from a web site into a document where I don't want the additional baggage of the HTML formatting, it would be nice to be able to do this with a shortcut key or a toolbar button.</p>

[{'answer_id': 74237, 'author': 'GSerg', 'author_id': 11683, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11683', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Make the button call the macro:</p>\n\n<pre><code>public sub PasteSpecialUnformatted()\n  selection.pastespecial datatype:=wdpastetext\nend sub\n</code></pre>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74969, 'author': 'Mackaaij', 'author_id': 13222, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13222', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I use <a href="http://www.getfingertips.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FingerTips</a> for this. By default it will make CTRL+W -> Paste Special. Furthermore it supports macro text and a lot of useful start-programs-quick things and some Microsoft Outlook tricks to support Getting Things Done.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 85696, 'author': 'Jon Schneider', 'author_id': 12484, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12484', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I would suggest using the <a href="http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PureText</a> lightweight utility application by Steve Miller for this.</p>\n\n<p>PureText runs in your system tray and listens on a global hotkey (which you can define -- I use Win+V) to perform a "paste text sans formatting" -- essentially the same operation as opening up an instance of notepad.exe, pasting into that, re-copying the resultant plain text, and then pasting into the actual target application.</p>\n\n<p>The advantage of this approach is that you\'ll be able to perform a "paste text sans formatting" in any of your applications, not just in Word.</p>\n\n<p>I first installed PureText a couple of years ago and have been using it heavily ever since; it has become a "must-have" utility application for me.  Highly recommended.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 14869170, 'author': 'DaDecoder', 'author_id': 2070998, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2070998', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can simply use Quick Access Panel in MS Word 2007 and later versions.</p>\n\n<p>It is very simple to add  <a href="http://dadecoder.blogspot.in/2013/02/add-shortcut-buttons-in-ms-word-2007.html" rel="nofollow">Shortcut Buttons in MS Office</a></p>\n\n<p>And saves a lot of time for regular users. </p>\n'}]
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