On a Mac, Option+Shift+Command+V is paste without style.
I can’t understand why this wasn’t the default (or when Command+V is pressed).
Edit: > I was referring to the app, whatever was recent in 2011 or so. 2007 I think? I haven't used it in a long time.
I was raging at my world. Things have got much, much worse in the MS Office world. Going back to it after a long absence had me baffled. It’s all online now, except when it isn’t, or when it sort of isn’t and it does not work well.
On Windows, it used to be Control-Shift-V. Unfortunately, it does not work in Office 2016 (and likely other recent versions). While the new approach is more flexible, it would have been nice if they kept the old behaviour bound to the old key combination.
I agree with recent versions of Office being a baffling mess. The only reason why I keep Office 2016 around is for the rare case that I need to send an editable document to someone else and I have no intent to upgrade since figuring out that mess is more trouble than it's worth.
I always wanted my documents (and particularly equations) to look as nice as the formatting in my textbooks, and it felt like no matter how much finagling I did (which was not an insignificant amount of time being spent), it never looked quite as good.
Also, I never fully knew what copy-paste was actually going to do. Was it going to copy the source formatting? Was it going to adopt the style of where I was pasting? Was it going to do neither and just break everything? I was never sure, so I always ended up pasting into Notepad and then re-copying it to guarantee all the formatting was stripped out.
And sometimes there would be just a vanilla "I pressed a random keystroke by accident, all the formatting broke, and undo doesn't appear to do anything" issues. This might just be gross incompetence on my end (it wouldn't be the first time) but nearly everyone I've described this issue to has experienced similar problems.
Also, I can't remember the details of it, and it's possibly fixed now, but I had issues with the equation editor simply not having all the symbols I needed.
In fairness, I have similar complaints about most of the other WYSIWYG word processors, so I don't mean to pick on MS Word specifically (most of these complaints apply to Pages and LibreOffice as well).