Microsoft Word For Mac Paste Options

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By default, Excel and Word display a Paste Options button on the worksheet or document to provide you with special options, such as Keep Source Formatting, when you paste content. If you don't want to see this button every time that you paste content, you can turn this option off.

This article explains how to show or hide the Paste Options button on a PC.

Click the File tab, then click Options.
Note: If you are using Excel 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Excel Options or Word Options.
In the Advanced category, under Cut, copy, and paste, clear or select the Show Paste Options button when content is pasted check box to hide or display the Show Paste Options button.
Note: If you are using Excel 2007, the check box is titled Show Paste Options buttons

When you paste content from one location to another, Word and Excel display a button that lets you choose different pasting options, such as keeping source formatting.

Paste Options button

If you don’t want to see this button, you can turn the option off.

Mar 26, 2019 Microsoft also adds a layer of extra options when you are trying to paste the content from Clipboard into another app such as Word. Clipboard on Microsoft Word using Mac For example, when you copy from Excel into another sheet, you can use the various options provided via ‘Paste Special’ or when you copy from Excel into word via Clipboard. Jan 12, 2020 When you embed an Excel worksheet into a Word document, you can either copy and paste from Excel to Word or embed using the Paste Special feature. The copy-and-paste method is faster but some formatting may change and some table functionality may be lost. The Paste Special feature provides more options for how the data will appear. Word for Office 365 Word 2019 Word 2016 Word 2013 More. Less The Office Clipboard stores text and graphics that you copy or cut from anywhere, and it lets you paste the stored items into any other Office file. Nov 14, 2019 We’re going to disable the Paste Options box in Word, but this procedure also applies to Excel and PowerPoint. Go to File Options. Then, click Advanced in the left pane on the Word Options dialog box. In the Cut, copy, and paste section, uncheck the Show Paste Options button when content is pasted box. Mar 06, 2017 Hi, I am using the latest MS Word for Mac. When copying and pasting images from the Web, my option for paste special is 'TIFF' only. It used to be.JPG, picture etc but options other than.TIFF are unavailable.TIFF makes the Word document too large. Is there any way I can get other options. Thanks Hi, I did a test on Mac OS X El Capitan version 10.

Tip: To dismiss the button without hiding it permanently, press ESC or start typing.

Note: Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages.

Word

On the Word menu, click Preferences.
Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Edit .
Under Cut and Paste Options, clear or select the Show Paste Options buttons check box.

Excel

On the Excel menu, click Preferences.
Under Authoring, click Edit .
Under Cut and Paste Options, clear or select the Show Paste Options check box.