Word 2007 Tip # 2 - Making Your Pastes Look Better

When you cut/copy and paste, you can control the formatting of the pasted text: it can either match the source that you took it from or the destination where you want it to go.

I generally prefer the latter.

You didn't used to be able to control this at all (although there was a "trick" in the last version).

Now you can control this, but the default in Word is to retain the formatting from the source rather than to match the formatting of the destination.

To change this, click on the Office button at the top left, then on "Word Options", then "Advanced". There are 4 settings for this towards the bottom right.

Via TechRepublic.