How do I make the "Paste Options" popup go away after pasting text?

Anonymous

I'm using Office 2007 on Windows 7 Professional.

This drives me crazy, and right now it's blocking other text I need to edit. When I move text around, using the right-click cut and paste menu, after pasting the paste options popup shows, and it won't go away, even if I choose a paste option. How do I make the stupid thing disappear after I'm done with it?

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K MVP Volunteer Moderator

Press the Esc key.

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Anonymous

2016-05-18T18:26:12+00:00

It's still the same for Word 2013 and still just as annoying and hard to get rid of.
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Anonymous

2015-12-30T04:29:10+00:00

Press the Esc key.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

This is so bleeping simple- I just have one thing to add:

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Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-09-28T07:20:56+00:00

You can post a suggestion in the forum at http://word.uservoice.com.

For what it is worth, pressing the ESC key is a standard way to close some windows (dialog boxes in particular) and discard any changes that you have made.
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