Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6MRT0)
Illustration: The Verge Have you ever pasted text into your beautifully formatted Microsoft Word document, only for it to ruin everything? Well, the days of the should finally be over, as Microsoft Word will now merge the text's formatting with your document by default.
Unlike the previous keep source formatting" default, the merge formatting" option preserves the original bold and underlined text, along with list and table structure. But it also changes the visual aspects of the text, such as font family, size, and color, to match the document you're working on. That should save you from messing up the formatting of your entire document when pasting in text from another source.
You could previously choose the merge formatting" option from Word's pasting...