Word for Mac 2011 When you cut or copy text and then paste it within the same document or another Word document, you can choose to retain the original formatting or adopt the formatting of the surrounding text where it is pasted. How Word formats a selection when you perform a simple cut and paste from another document is determined by whether the selection includes a paragraph mark or section break. If the selection Word applies Does not include a paragraph mark The character style and any additional character formats applied to the selection.
Is a single paragraph mark The paragraph style and any additional paragraph formats are applied to the paragraph. Includes a paragraph mark The paragraph style and any additional paragraph formats are applied to the paragraph. Word also applies the character style and any additional character formats applied to the selection. Includes a section break All the formatting for the section that precedes it, including margins, number of columns, line numbers, page size and orientation, and headers and footers. Do any of the following: Keep the formatting of the original text. Select the text that you want to cut or copy, and then press + X to cut the text or + C to copy the text.
Word: Adjust Table Columns (Auto-Fit). You can manually adjust the width of any table; however, the following tips may allow you to fine-tune your tables with.
Click where you want to paste the text, and then press + V. Click Paste Options, which appears after you paste the text.
I don't see the Paste Options button when I paste text. On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Edit.
Under Cut and paste options, select the Show Paste Options buttons check box. Click Keep Source Formatting. Note: If you paste items from a bulleted or numbered list into a document that contains a bulleted or numbered list, you might not see Keep Source Formatting when you click the Paste Options button. Change the formatting of the original text to match the destination formatting. Select the text that you want to cut or copy, and then press + X to cut the text or + C to copy the text. Click where you want to paste the text, and then press + V.
Click Paste Options, which appears after you paste the text. I don't see the Paste Options button when I paste text. On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Edit. Under Cut and paste options, select the Show Paste Options buttons check box.
Do one of the following: To Do this Preserve formatting such as bold or italicized words Click Match Destination Formatting. Remove all of the original formatting from the text that you are pasting Click Keep Text Only. Notes:. If your selection includes content that is not text, the Keep Text Only option discards the content or converts it to text. For example, if you use the Keep Text Only option when you paste content that includes pictures and a table, the pictures are omitted from the pasted content, and the table is converted to a series of paragraphs. If your selection includes a bulleted or numbered list, the Keep Text Only option may discard the bullets or numbering, depending on the default setting for pasting text in Word. To preserve the bullet and number characters, you can convert the bulleted or numbered list formatting to paragraphs that begin with bullet or number characters.
Word tables are great tools for listing and comparing values. I use them a lot because they're so easy to create and manipulate. In addition, I'm always learning new tricks to use with them. For instance, I recently learned that you can copy an entire row or column to create a new row or column, already filled with values.
Now, you'll seldom want to reproduce an entire column or row, but occasionally the data is so similar that it's quicker to copy all of the values from a row or column and then change a few. Here's how to copy a column or row in a table:. Quickly select the column or row you want to copy. To select a column, move the insertion point to the column's top border. When it turns into a thick arrow pointing down (to the column), click to select the entire column. To select a row, click in the margin, just to the left of the first cell in the row. Press and hold down the Ctrl key.
Click anywhere inside the selected column or row until the insertion point appears. Continue to hold down the Ctrl key and drag the column or row to where you want to insert the new column or row. Usually, that will be just before the existing value in the first cell of the row or column.