Give the Paste button the boot
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Is Office for Mac sometimes, uh, a little too helpful? If you’ve ever been busy copying and pasting text from a bunch of |
Every time you paste, the button shows up in your document, and it can be annoying.
It looks like this:
This Paste Options button that appears in your document is temporary. It’s supposed to be helpful. You can click it to change the formatting of the pasted item — to make pasted text match the formatting of other text in your document, for example.
But sometimes it’s in the way. To dismiss it, press ESC, or begin typing.
Really, really hate it? Learn how you can turn it off in Word or Excel . (Sorry, but you cannot turn it off in PowerPoint.)
- Dawn, PowerPoint for Mac writer
May 5th, 2011
I don’t hate it at all, is very helpful. It would be also helpful to define a behavior as default, for instance match the style of the text it’s being copied to.
I’m having a problem getting the Paste Options button to work on my PowerPoint for Mac (2008). I’ve tried all kinds of things to make it work (and yes, I have the option turned on in my preferences) including uninstalling and reinstalling. When you’re putting a sting of presentations together that are done with different templates, the Paste Options button is a god send. I am starting to wonder if upgrading to Office 2011 will solve my problem.
@Xavier That’s great! I’m glad it’s helpful. I’m passing along your feedback to the PowerPoint for Mac engineering team to assist in feature prioritization for future updates.
@Nick It’s a little hard to tell exactly what might be happening. One possibility is that you are pasting a picture. When you paste a picture, the Paste Options button does not appear. It only appears for text.
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Of course the real hassle with paste in office is that it doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to, and hasn’t since the beginning (or at least for many years). The easiest demo of this is the way the user will be asked whether to save the large clipboard upon quitting. Huh? The user isn’t supposed to have to even think about that.
But for some examples of annoying (and non-standard) behavior: Why don’t copied objects stay on the clipboard until the next copy? Why can’t you paste with any random assortment of features in Excel (say, format and values only)? Why does the whole window change size when you copy a chart?
I could go on.
Thanks for the help. I have had trouble with those little boxes in Word and Excel since I got Office 2011.