
In the Press new shortcut key field, PRESS the keys you want to use for this shortcut.Scroll down to PasteTextOnly and select it (2 in the screenshot).In the Commands list (top right box), type p to get to the commands starting with ‘p’.Scroll down the list of Categories (top left box) to All commands and select it (number 1 in the screenshot below).Below the left panel of commands, click the Customize button (next to Keyboard shortcuts) to open the Customize Keyboard dialog box.Click Customize ribbon in the left panel.On the File menu, click Options to open the Word Options dialog box.Note: As far as I’m aware you can do this in all versions of Word from at least Word 2010 onwards. However, if you have to do this a lot, there’s another, much easier, way - assign a keyboard shortcut to the ‘paste as unformatted text’ command. I’ve previously written about using toolbar icons, macros, or other features of Word to paste copied text as unformatted text (see and ).
