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.

When I copied an amount from another table, the colors and borders of the table I had carefully formatted changed.In such cases, try using Excel's "Paste Values" feature. You can move text or numbers ...

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 ...