How to paste a text into a document without the original formatting

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When you work on a project and copy text sections from multiple sources, you should learn how to ignore the original text formatting.

The interaction of any user with a PC or Mac gravitates a lot around the Copy-Paste process. Whether you choose the English or English version, copy / paste is the mechanism that makes you more efficient in most of your projects. It does not matter if you are copying a file from one side to another or borrowing text sections from a website to use them in a separate document.

 

The problem with the copy-paste process is that the results may not always be what you want. You might copy a picture into a Word document and ruin your entire text on the page, and you might copy some text paragraphs in PowerPoint just to be disappointed that the initial formatting of those text lines does not have no connection to the rest of your presentation.

 

Fortunately, there are some tricks that you can call when you miss something in a document. The copy process will always be the same and involves the combination of CTRL + C on Windows or CMD + C on Mac. However, the procedure for the gluing process or the paste varies depending on the results you want at the end.

 

Most of the time, when you paste a text into a document on the web, it comes with certain pre-formatted formatting rules. To properly integrate it into the overall look of your original file, you have several options. The first would be to completely remove the formatting rules that your text had before. To do this, there is a combination of CTRL + Shift + V on Windows and Command + Option + V on Mac.

 

In more special cases, especially in Word, after you paste a text, before clicking anywhere else, click on the button next to the pasted corner in the bottom right corner. There you will have more options and the most suitable results you might get after choosing Match Destination Formatting.