The Best Use of Touch Bar I’ve Found

Lee Bridges
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

It comes from the most unlikely of places: Microsoft Outlook (really the entire Microsoft Office suite).

Paste Formatted Text Into a Microsoft Office Program

All you have to do is paste some formatted text into an email or any other rich-text field inside a Microsoft Office program. If you have any history with Office products on Mac, you’ll know that switching that formatted text to match the font formatting of the rest of your document has always been a pain in the ass. You either had to remember some crazy combination of key strokes for the shortcut, or you had to go to the menu and select Edit > Paste and Match Style. Even worse, in Excel, you would have to select Edit > Paste Special… which would open a modal window where you would select the Text option and click Paste.

None of that matters with a Touch Bar.

Isn’t it beautiful

Isn’t that beautiful? As soon as you paste text in any of the Office programs (including Excel), you’re presented with these options on the Touch Bar.

I think it’s one of the best uses of Touch Bar that I’ve found so far.

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