Learning to Use Building Blocks - Continued

How often do you copy and paste something in the documents you create? Microsoft research shows that Copy and Paste are two of the most often-used features in Word 2010; users might copy and paste as many as 300 times per month. Both procedures are simple, requiring only that you select the item you want to copy, click Copy on the Home tab, put the cursor where you want the item, and click Paste. Simple, right?

The challenge was that pasting the text or object sometimes had unexpected results, depending on where users pasted the item and what type of item was being inserted in the document. In fact, users undo paste operations more than any other in Office 2010. To answer this challenge and provide consistently what users expect, Copy and Paste have been improved in Word 2010. Now more than 400 clipboard formats are supported to make copying and pasting as easy and as reliable as possible while you’re working on your documents.

Step by Step: Pasting Content Your Way
Use Paste with Live Preview to get just the paste results you want. The variety of paste formats and the flexibility Word 2010 offers you when you paste text and objects in your document results in more reliable formats and less tweaking after the fact. And that means better efficiency and reliable results. Nice! This example shows you how to use Paste with Live Preview so that you can get the results  you want when you paste content in your Word 2010 document:

1. With your document open on the screen, highlight and copy the text or object you want to paste. Click Copy in the Clipboard group of the Home tab or press Ctrl+C.
2. Click at the point in your document where you want to paste the copied item.
3. Click the Paste arrow in the Clipboard group of the Home tab. A Paste Options gallery appears as you see here:

4. Point to each Paste icon to see a live preview of the way the item will appear in your document.
5. Click your choice. The item is pasted in the document as you selected. 

You can also display the Paste Options gallery by right-clicking in the document at the  point you want to paste the copied information. After you paste the content, Paste Options are displayed near the paste location in case you want to make a change:

Tip : Paste with Live Preview is available in all Office 2010 applications, and the selections displayed under Paste Options in the gallery vary depending on the type of content you have copied to the Clipboard. To display the Office 2010 Clipboard, click the dialog launcher in the lower right corner of the Clipboard group in the Home tab.