{"id":1980,"date":"2012-02-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2012\/02\/10\/tip-how-to-cut-and-paste-without-messing-up-formatting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:46:54","slug":"tip-how-to-cut-and-paste-without-messing-up-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/tip-how-to-cut-and-paste-without-messing-up-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip:  How to cut and paste without messing up formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does formatting sometimes get messed up when you cut and paste text?&nbsp;And what is that thing that appears at the end of the last sentence every time you paste&#8211;like a fly returning to honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That thing&#8211;the <b>Paste Options button<\/b>&#8211;is your friend, a worker bee and not a fly&nbsp;whose only job is to follow your formatting instructions. 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