Comments on: Paste unformatted keyboard shortcut in Office 2008 for Mac

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:59:07 +0000

I am looking for a keyboard shortcut to Paste Special images that are Pictures.

When I adjust the script to that shown below, replacing Text with Picture, on trying to save the script I get a message saying Syntax error – Expected end of line but found class name.

Adjusted script:
tell application “Microsoft Word”
paste special (text object of selection) data type paste Picture
end tell

What do I need to do to adjust the script so it pastes a Picture?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:31:25 +0000

UPDATE - the second script you posted worked fine for me. I set the shortcut to \csV.scpt

Thank you. This will change my life. :)

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:28:27 +0000

George, the script runs fine in the AS editor and when I access the script through the AS menu (the unformatted text is pasted) but when I use the keyboard shortcut the AS menu becomes hi-lighted but WORD locks up…

Any ideas?

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:11:40 +0000

Why on earth wouldn’t MS make unformatted the default and make it your choice to paste formatted in the rare instance you would ever want to do that. On my own I figured out how to set paste unformatted using a macro in the previous version, but there is no way I would be able to figure this trick out without help. This is in keeping with trend in our society to make things harder and harder for the end user to fix on their own. I’m not a fan of that.

By: Nobody

Nobody — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:23:59 +0000

Awesome! I’ve been looking all over for a way to do this, but nothing else worked. Thank you!

By: Lyle Turner

Lyle Turner — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:37:15 +0000

I believe character mapping for the modifier keys are:
c = ctrl,
o = option/alt,
s = shift,
m = command

“\cV.scpt” should give you the Ctrl=V shortcut.

So combine at will.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:12:47 +0000

Hi, for the dummies amongst us: I have changed it to “Paste unformatted\oV.scpt”. I can live with “Alt-V”, but any chance you beautiful people will tell me how to change it to “Ctrl-V”?

Tx!

By: Boom

Boom — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:54:51 +0000

You are a life-saver!

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:36:10 +0000

Like Tinto, I need an Applescript keystroke that will Paste Unformatted in Powerpoint 2008. I have tried various options for Word, replacing “Word” with “PowerPoint”, but get the same error message.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:35:32 +0000

Hey, thanks for this! Saves me a ton of time! Well done.