Word is one of those programs that almost everyone knows. It first appeared in 1983 to compete with a unified alternative called WordPerfect, which later took its place. It’s been a long time coming, and it’s certainly word processor There has been noticeable improvement, but some changes requested by users have been slow to arrive.

Microsoft has updated the default way text is pasted into Word. Until now, the program has preserved the source formatting, which meant extra work for those who wanted to keep the text formatting they were working with. That’s starting to change for all users. Say ‘hello’ to the ‘Match Default Formatting’ option.

New default way to paste text in Word

Now, when we paste text from a web page or another program (not another Word document), the word processor will use the “Match formatting” option by default. Features like bold, italics, and underline will be preserved, but font, size, color, etc. will match the target format of our document.

This change was welcomed by some Internet users. As our Genbeta colleagues report, the good news is that this is not the only way.

The other paste options are still available. As we can see in the screenshot, when we click on the Paste options menu, we find the option “Keep source formatting”, which keeps all the elements of the format, the “Match formatting” that we just mentioned and the option “Keep text only”, which removes bullets, images, etc.

In addition, we have the possibility to configure the previous default paste path in Windows. To do this we will need to enter Options > Developed. In Paste from other programs we select the option “Keep source formatting”. It is worth noting that this last setting is not available in versions of Pending tasks on Mac for Microsoft.

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