From the course: Cert Prep: Word Expert - Microsoft Office Specialist for Office 2019

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Apply Paste Options

Apply Paste Options

- [Instructor] Paste options can be configured as a default or can be selected when the content is inserted. After watching this video, you'll know how to configure default paste options and how to use Paste Special options. Let's take a look at our paste options document. And, I want to take a look and see if we have any default paste options already configured. I'll go to File and Options. Your paste options are under Advanced. We'll scroll down a little bit, and they fall under the category of Cut, copy, and paste. These are my default settings, and if you haven't made any changes this is probably how yours looks also. So first, when you're pasting within the same document, the default is to keep the source formatting. You also can choose to merge the formatting or keep the text only. Any changes that you make in the Options window will work with all of your documents going forward. So, you can really save a lot of time…

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