A New Way to Paste
Have you ever tried to paste some Excel data into PowerPoint presentation? If you just press the paste button or Ctrl+V, PowerPoint will apply theme formatting to the table. Sometimes, however, you just want the table to look the same as it did in the spreadsheet. Maybe you just want to paste the table as an image. As described on the Office Engineering Blog:
“In Office 2010, we’re combining the rich functionality of the Paste Special dialog and the Paste Recovery feature into a new Paste Options gallery. The Paste Options gallery includes Live Preview – hovering over each Paste item allows users to preview the Paste formatting with their actual content. The new Paste Options gallery helps users get the right results the first time, making the task of copying and pasting content into a document quicker and easier by eliminating the repetitive process of pasting, undoing and trying again.”
You simply hover over one of the paste options to see a preview of what you’ll get. This helps you achieve the results you are looking for without wasting any time. We’ve exposed the most common options for each object, so that you can focus on your presentation. For example, here are the paste options for a table:
I hope you find this new feature as useful as I do. It’s all over Office 2010, and it really makes things easier.
-Christopher Maloney
August 15, 2009
