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Copy a word or two from a web page, paste onto a Word document, and what do you see? Sometimes, you're given a drop-down menu with options like "paste text only" or "match destination formatting." Other times, you're just stuck with that 24-pt size purple word in Verdana in the middle of your 11-pt Word document.

Sometimes, when you inadvertently copy and paste text with a little too much formatting, Word goes kaput. I even started pasting the text (especially when it's a longer passage) into a new Mail message, Command-Shift-T to make it plain text, then copy that to Word.

This happens often enough that I finally went looking for a fix. And found it.

Here's a simple script that pastes whatever is on the clipboard as plain text, without any style information. It works beautifully. Now I can go back to writing... uh, or at least copying and pasting.

Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008 (from TidBits)

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