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Is there a way to setup Photoshop to copy or MS Office to paste images from Photoshop as bitmap? If you simply paste (ctrl+v) it's inserted as an Adobe embedded object and seems to have some reverence to Photoshop. But if you go to Paste special you can select "Bitmap" and it will paste as a solid image. Is there a way to ALWAYS use this paste-method?

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What do you mean without embedding objects. Do you mean you want to just create a reference of the picture and so when MS application loads, it locates that reference and puts in the picture, or do you want the picture to be saved within the MS application and not reference an external source? – Dave Rook Jan 23 at 13:23
More detail please... – Redandwhite Jan 23 at 13:55
if you "paste special" within Word or excel, you can select "paste as bitmap" instead of "paste as Adobe object". I'd like to have it as a solid bitmap within the word/excel document. I'll adjust the question. – uwe Jan 23 at 16:04

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I see two ways:

1) If you assign the keyboard shortcut ctrl-shift-V in Word to the "Paste Special" action, you can do it relatively quickly by:

  1. tapping ctrl-shift-V,
  2. then, using the arrow keys to select 'Bitmap' (there's only few options, so tapping twice or so the arrow key will do it),
  3. finally, press enter.

Note that the ctrl-shift-V shortcut is also used by default in e.g. Thunderbird and Evernote to paste without formatting. If you are looking for the correct command in the chaotic 'customize' menu of Word (Under Word Options > Customize > Keyboard Shortcuts: Customize > Home Tab), its named EditPasteSpecial.

2) In Word, record a macro (under the View tab in the Ribbon), and assign a shortcut to it.

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