Paste special must be one of the most over looked under utilised tools.
If I am writing a document in my favourite font,eg Comic Sans and I paste a piece into that document from somewhere else, eg from an email, or off the net that is written in a different font eg Times New Roman. The piece I paste in keeps its formatting, Times New Roman, and makes my document written in Comic Sans look silly.
A bit like this really. I am forced to highlight the offending text and change the font and size to blend in with my original document.
However when you copy your piece to insert, the Times New Roman text from an email, click the curser into your original document where you want the text to be inserted, go up to Edit and scroll down to Paste Special and then click on Unformatted text. The piece you are pasting in appears in your document and takes on the formatting of your own document eg Comic Sans.
Try it. I use this such a lot for quoting passages from web sites, or quotes from readings etc. Invaluable really.
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