Shortcutting MS Word "Paste Special" to "Unformatted Text"

[griffman]

You can, albeit with some GUI activity showing up (i.e. there's no way to do it without seeing the dialog box). Here's how I do it in Excel:

Excel: Paste special / Values

Almost all of those items have keyboard shortcuts, but you can't see them in the Mac version (which is frustrating, as I reported it maybe a decade ago?). You can find the list in the app's help—search for "Keyboard Shortcuts," then look for this link: Keyboard shortcuts in the Paste Special dialog box in Excel 2013. In Windows, they show them when the dialog box is onscreen: [image] I used this to build a palette (bound to Shift-Ctrl-E) that lets…

-rob.