I wanted to add the menu item “Edit/Paste Special/Unformatted text” to the right-click context menu in Word 2000 (why I still use Word 2000 is another discussion all together).
I found this post by Gary Frieder of http://www.customofficedev.com/ posted at http://windowssecrets.com which described the process of adding to the context menu, and then a comment further down told how to add a macro (such as one to paste text unformatted) to that same context menu.
Here are the steps Gary Frieder describes:
- Go to Tools > Customize.
- In the Customize dialog, click on the Toolbars tab, then scroll down until you can see the listing for “Shortcut Menus”.
- Click a checkmark next to this listing, and you will see a Shortcut Menus toolbar appear.
- This toolbar will have three menus: Text, Table and Draw.
- Click on the one for Text, and you will see a listing of all of the text-context shortcut menus – there are quite a lot of them. Word uses internal “contextual” rules to determine which menu is appropriate to display at a given moment.
- The most frequently-seen one of these is “Text”.
- Click on “Text” and you will see the shortcut menu pop up.
- You can now customize this like any other menu:
- With the Text shortcut menu displaying, click on the Commands tab in the Customize dialog.
- Click on Edit in the Categories list.
- Then scroll down the Commands list until you locate Paste Special.
- You can just click and drag this command from the Commands list, onto your shortcut menu.
And here’s the quote about creating and adding a macro:
Thanks a million, Gary. Worked like a charm. A couple of months ago, I made a little macro (my first ever) for “Paste Special > unformatted text” so I wouldn’t have to click “unformatted text” everytime. I had also created a my own toolbar icon for it.
When I followed your directions but instead of dragging Paste Special from the commands list, I dragged my little macro icon onto the context menu and it works perfectly!
Thanks to the pros!!