What a huge oversight, having Microsoft Word try to impose a shortcut from Macs (as it seems) to longtime Windows users (especially when other software the user works with use other set of shortcuts for copy-paste). Wonder why Microsoft didn’t add both the old and new shortcuts there, since it seems the dialog does support it. Now, from the right box select the following Command: EditCopy Look at the 'Current Keys' Box you will see 'Ctrl+Insert' which is the NEW mapping now put your cursor in the 'Press new shortcut key' and Press Ctrl+C, a button on the bottom named Assign will light up, and you click on it.ĭo the same for all the shortcuts you like, such as EditPaste, EditUndo, EditRedo, EditCut, SelectAll etc. On the Categories box, scroll until you find 'All Commands' and select it. To 'restore' word to the way you remember, you need to go to, File->Options->Customize Ribbon On the bottom there is a label 'Keyboard Shortcuts' and a button 'Customize…' – click it Today had enough so after some Google search on it, found the best fix by Moshe Eschel at: So I had to move my fingers far away to SHIFT+INSERT to paste. I would press CTRL+C at some other software and then would press ALT+TAB to go into an open Word document and press CTRL+V to paste, but it would not. For some time now, I was getting very annoyed while copy-pasting content from other software into Microsoft Word 2010.