Plain Text Paste, Word 2003

[jopakent -at- comcast -dot- net]

Here's a silly little irritation... (Word 2003, XP) I've been using a little shortcut for the last couple of years that makes grabbing chunks of text from one doc (or a web site) and pasting it into my active doc a bit quicker and easier.

Instead of doing a simple cut and paste, I do a paste special and select Unformatted Text. This brings in the text and Word picks up the formatting of the existing paragraph style; works great.

However Alt-E-S, cursor up/down-OK is a bit clunky, so I recorded the keystrokes and then mapped the macro (PlainPaste) to a keystroke sequence "Alt-P."

I'm setting up a new box and for some reason my little shortcut doesn't work right. The text pastes in OK, but it comes in with it's formatting. Here's what recorded:

Sub PlainPaste()
'
' PlainPaste Macro
' Macro recorded 3/12/2008 by J. Paul Kent
'
    Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault)
End Sub

I looked in the VBA help using the keyword "Plain" and found wdStylePlainText in a list somewhere. I edited the macro and substituted wdStylePlainText  for wdPasteDefault, but that did not seem to make a difference.

I know this worked before, so I'm confused as to what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

TIA,
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