Microsoft, the company behind the service with the same name, Microsoft 365, is considering changing the default format for pasting text into Word documents, something that often ends up causing formatting issues with white spaces that are often hard to find. For now, this feature will be tested by internal 365 users, but it could soon be available to all users as well.
It’s a reality: almost everyone has experienced at some point that, when copying text into a document, the formatting doesn’t homogenize and words appear with different font, size, and even line spacing, a nightmare for lovers of clean and organized structures. Therefore, if Microsoft defaults to changing the formatting of texts to match the destination document, it’s more than certain that many users will be happy about it.
Testing the new format for insiders
As Microsoft explains in their blog for 365 insiders, they are testing a new default setting in Word that will make pasted content in the document adopt the same format as the file, instead of each copied text retaining the format of its original document.
Obviously, those who prefer the default classic option, in which copied texts will retain their original formatting, will be able to enable it again in Word settings, where, in advanced settings, there are different paste options depending on the source of the copied text.
Office Automation and its Future
There are countless services that can be done through a computer, but few have changed as little as office automation over the decades. Being a system that has needed few changes over time, services like Word have been part of the lives of millions of companies, workers, and students for a long time.
However, in the face of an extremely stubborn stance for many years, Artificial Intelligence is also capable of bringing interesting improvements to such a rigid format as office automation in general. Therefore, the improvements that have been introduced in Word in recent weeks provide tools that make the application’s experience even smarter and more intuitive.