Microsoft Word just fixed its biggest copy-paste headache of all time

You copy and paste something into Microsoft Word and suddenly the formatting in half of your text is ruined. This years-old headache is now being solved in Word. — Photo: Uwe Anspach/dpa

BERLIN: You copy and paste some text from another program into Microsoft Word, and suddenly the colour, font, size and other formattings of your text are all wrong. Whole minutes are wasted fixing it!

Now, thanks to a new feature delivered by Microsoft at last, this decade-old headache should be a thing of the past as the program switches to a new default setting - "Merge Formatting."