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Updated Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008
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  by Joe Kissell <joe@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9503>

  In "Word 2008 and the Paste Plain Text Dance" (2008-01-19), I
  described a tiny AppleScript I use in Word 2008 to paste text
  without style information, so that the pasted text adopts the style
  of whatever is around it. From the feedback I've received, the lack
  of a built-in command to do this with one click had irritated quite
  a few people. Since then, I've found that very occasionally - I
  can't quite discern a pattern to why or when - text pasted with my
  script takes on the default font of Word's Normal template
  (Cambria), rather than the actual font of the surrounding text.

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/9408>

  So I experimented further, and I've come up with a revised script
  that not only solves this problem but takes an entirely different
  approach that results in a shorter and more elegant solution. Thus
  far I haven't seen any occasions in which the new script fails. As
  before, you can either paste this into Script Editor or download the
  completed script, unzip it, and put it in ~/Documents/Microsoft User
  Data/Word Script Menu Items. Here's the script:

<http://www.tidbits.com/resources/2008-03/PastePlainTextII.zip>

    tell application "Microsoft Word"
        tell selection
            try
                set theClip to Unicode text of (the clipboard as record)
                type text text theClip
            end try
        end tell
    end tell

  Now, instead of counting the number of characters on the clipboard
  and moving the insertion point, the script uses the "type text"
  command to simulate typing, which automatically puts the insertion
  point in the right place.



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