No matter what I set the default paste options to in Word 2013, text always pastes with source formatting. I've tried fiddling with everything on that section of the options pane including "smart cut and paste" but nothing seems to make any difference at all.
Has anyone else experienced this? is there something stupid I missed? I'm using 64 bit office BTW but not sure if that makes any difference.
just to be clear, here's exactly what I'm doing.
- click home tab
- click triangle underneath paste button
- click 'set default paste'
- next to "pasting from other programs" select "keep text only"
- click OK
- go to chrome browser window, select some text, press control-c
- return to Word window, paste control-v
- text is pasted with the formatting from chrome, not as plain text.
Note that if I click the small triangle under the paste button and then click the icon to keep text only, it does what I would expect.
Also I'm using office 64 bit which I know is not common so it may be that this is a bug that only appears in the 64 bit version.
Best Answer
In order to get the default paste options to work on my computer, I had to check the box that says "Show Paste Options button when content is pasted." This check box is located in the same area as the default paste options.