Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Getting Rid of the Paste Options Box.
If you copy and paste information from place to place in a document, you may have noticed that whenever you complete a paste operation, Word helpfully displays a "paste options" tool right next to whatever you pasted. Use this tool and you can apply some variations to what you pasted.
Some people find the paste options to be distracting in some versions of Word. (The appearance of the paste options tool is different in different versions of Word.) Fortunately for them, Word allows you to turn them off. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Edit tab of the Options dialog box.
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2014-09-05 08:06:19
awyatt
Lori: This particular tip is only for the older versions of Word. If you want the same tip for newer versions (which is what you ask about), click the link at the beginning or end of this tip.
-Allen
2014-09-05 07:09:54
Lori
Any plans to update this for Office 2007/2010?? I've unchecked the box to 'show paste options buttons' but they are still showing up.
2014-08-13 19:29:07
Alyssa
I was hoping to learn how to close the box once it appears. I sometimes use the options, so I don't want to turn it off completely, but I would like to dismiss it when I don't need it and haven't figured out how to do that yet.
2014-06-02 20:43:58
Paul
Wonderful, that little damn window has annoyed the crap out of me for years as it masks changes that I can't see if I made correctly or not so now fixed. Wish I could buy you a drink.
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