I am wanting to paste unformatted text into word all the time. I generally use styles in word, which sets my preferred formatting. So I was intrigued by the suggestion of command shift option v, which, however, does not work for me in Word 08; 10.6.8. My workaround is to paste into Textwrangler, which is always open on my mac. This removes all formatting. then copy and paste into word. text wrangler also will remove hard returns pretty smartly. I set up a macro in that so that I can readily remove the hard returns select all and then click my word document and paste. its all pretty fast and seamless. -steve -- At 6:11 AM -0700 9/17/13, <x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> wrote: >Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:41:39 -0700 >From: "Randy B. Singer" <randy at macattorney.com> >To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user." > <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> >Subject: [X4U] 14 Mac Tips >Message-ID: <5D6FC297-5A1B-4F49-AFB1-81B52AEBCE48 at macattorney.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >14 Mac Tips That Will Change Your Life >http://www.the-tech-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pEPE0dU.jpg > > >___________________________________________ >Randy B. Singer >Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) > >Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance >http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html >___________________________________________ >