[bombledmonk]

In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.

Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.

https://forum.digikey.com/t/add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...

[hanoz]

> In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v.

Sometimes that trick just stops working for no reason at all, then there's nothing else for it but to paste into notepad.exe and re-copy.

[jimlikeslimes]

Just to kind of address the Outlook issue, you can also set the default paste setting to be text only. (sigh) we have to do this.

[haxorito]

I’d say it’s all backwards default copy-paste should be just text and then you can go overboard with adding +shift to combination or +alt

[bryanrasmussen]

On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.

[wintermutestwin]

Thanks so much for this - I can't imagine how much time I have wasted jumping through goofy hoops trying to change the formatting in gmail.

If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting.

FWIW, shift+command+v works for me...

[tbrock]

I think you just need to add shift, option is not necessary.

[vandahm]

That's a lot of finger gymnastics, but it's probably better than `pbpaste|pbcopy`, which is how I've been doing it all these years.

[barbazoo]

That's guitar barre chord level difficulty

[antifa]

I wish MSTeams supported ancient well established UI/UX conventions, this one most of all.

[ZeWaka]

It's incredibly annoying in Outlook. Every other Microsoft product I've used like Word supports the key-combo, but of course Outlook has to be different.

[rhino369]

In word, Cntrl Shift V just applies formatting. You have to Ctrl V wait hit Cntrl again and then hit T.

[icelancer]

My company switched to Office over Google and this is by far the worst thing I've come across, and that's saying a lot.

[TurkishPoptart]

Fucking Microsoft. Why can't things be simple and standardized?

[soheil]

Any way is to paste inside a non-textrich area like the browser address bar and then immediately copy the content again to get rid of the styling.

[jhot]

I do this all the time. Cmd+tab into browser, cmd+t, cmd+v, cmd+a, cmd+c, cmd+w, cmd+tab to where I need to paste, cmd+v

But now that I've seen you can add shift to remove formatting, I'll have to try to remember to do that instead.

[SilasX]

Oh wow I had always gotten into the habit of copying into a simple text editor first if I wanted to strip out the formatting.

[pbhjpbhj]

I often copy to Notepad on Windows, but careful, some characters get silently dropped.

[mhdhn]

It's worse in the smartphone world, at least on iOS. There isn't any notion of paste-plain-text. If I want that, eg in Mail app, I have to use the app Plain Text. It feels like crap.

[s0rce]

I hate outlook blocking that. No idea why you would implement that not working.

[astolarz]

In Outlook, go to Options > Mail > Editor Options > Advanced > Cut, Copy, Paste > change the drop downs for the various scenarios to "Keep Text Only" to always strip formatting.

[benhurmarcel]

On Windows I like to use this: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/