Pasting text

Some of the text that you may want to paste into text areas can already be formatted from its source. For example, when you paste text from a Word document, it usually has some basic formatting applied to it. By default, the editor recognizes and keeps the formatting when you paste the text.

The toolbar allows you to paste text in three different ways:

If you need to remove formatting from text that you already pasted in the editor, refer to Removing text formatting.

Pasting text while preserving formatting

  1. Copy or Cut the text that you want to Paste.
  2. Click with your left mouse button where in a text area you want to paste the text.
  3. Press the CTRL + V buttons on your keyboard. Note that you can also use the dedicated Paste button on the editor and paste the text inside it.
  4. (Optional) Confirm the Paste dialog by pressing OK.

The system pastes the text and preserves its formatting, if it had any.

Pasting text from Microsoft Word

  1. Copy or Cut the text that you want to Paste from a Word document.
  2. Click with your left mouse button where in a text area you want to paste the text.
  3. Press the CTRL + V buttons on your keyboard. Note that you can also use the dedicated Paste from Word button on the editor and paste the text inside it.
  4. (Optional) Confirm the Paste dialog by pressing OK.

The system pastes the text and preserves its formatting, if it had any.

Pasting text without preserving formatting

  1. Copy or Cut the text that you want to Paste.
  2. Click with your left mouse button where in a text area you want to paste the text.
  3. Click the Paste as plain text button on the toolbar. A Paste as Plain Text dialog appears.
  4. Paste the text in the Paste as plain text dialog using CTRL + V.
  5. Confirm by pressing OK.

The system pastes the text and removes its formatting.