> When copying text from one document to another, it gets really gnarly when
> the pasted text not only does not come out in the format of the document you
> are pasting into but looks nothing like the format from where it was copied.
>
> The only work around is to paste the selection as unformatted text. However,
> when one has to access the Edit>Paste Special menu over and over again, it
> becomes not only tedious but time-consuming.
>
> Of course, there is the "Keep Text Only" option when something has just been
> pasted, but this does not always work, especially when dealing with tables.
> "Paste special" is still the most painless way of doing it.
>
> Putting a "Paste special" in the right-click menu (which already has "Copy",
> "Cut" and "Paste" among other useful things) will significantly and
> dramatically improve editing. Excel already has such functionality and I am
> surprised and disappointed that they don't have it in Word.
>
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