Options used for "Smart cut and paste" settings in Word

Adjust sentence and word spacing automatically

Adjusts spaces between words after a paste. Removes extra spaces when deleting text or adds spaces when pasting text from the clipboard.

Adjust paragraph spacing on paste

Preserves paragraph spacing when pasting text to prevent empty paragraphs or inconsistent paragraph spacing.

Adjust table formatting and alignment on paste

Controls paste options for formatting and aligning tables.

• Single cell    Pasted as text.

• Partial table    Pasted as rows into an existing table (rather than as a nested table).

• Adding a table to an existing table    The pasted table is adjusted to match the existing table.

Smart style behavior

Controls style conflicts in a document. Styles are handled consistently when the style in the document you are pasting from has the same name as a style in the document you are pasting to. The Paste options allow you to choose between keeping the formatting and matching the formatting of the destination document.

Merge formatting when pasting from Microsoft PowerPoint

Controls the results when pasting from Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Applies the formatting of surrounding text or tables to the pasted selection by default.

• Applies the most recently used bullet/number/list style for all bulleted/numbered lists.

• Preserves such items as tables, hyperlinks, images, OLE objects, and shapes.

Adjust formatting when pasting from Microsoft Excel

Controls pasting results when pasting data from Excel. The default is to paste the data in a table in the Word document. When pasting an Excel chart, it is pasted as a picture (uses less disk space) rather than as an OLE object. Link and embed options are still available.

Merge pasted lists with surrounding lists

Controls formatting of pasted list. List items will be formatted like the surrounding lists by default. The paste options allow you to change the formatting of the list when pasting.