The settings for Pasting within the same document and Pasting between documents offer three options: Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, or Keep Text Only.

Each setting has paste options that the user can set, namely: Keep Source Formatting: Retains formatting that is applied to the copied text. The Keep Source Formatting option is the default.

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Click "Keep Text Only" instead of "Keep Source Formatting" and Word pastes just the Web page's text into the document. You'll find this useful when you don't need a Web page's images.

The default paste option was previously set to Keep Source Formatting, but it has been changed to Merge Formatting.

Word 2003's paste options come up short Since the company I work for still uses Word 2003, we've got no such option because you can't change Word 2003's default Keep Source Formatting paste setting.

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You can insert a blank page into a Word document and avoid disrupting the formatting by selecting Blank Page in the Insert menu.

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