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I recently learned about the MacOS universal Shift-Option-Command-V keyboard shortcut: paste without formatting

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/19

Boy, two extra modifier keys: [Wayback/Archive] How to Strip Formatting When You Copy and Paste Text: 5 Ways

To paste as plain text on a Mac, you can use the somewhat cumbersome shortcut Option+Cmd+Shift+V to paste without formatting. This is a system-wide shortcut, so unlike Windows, it should work everywhere. Technically, the shortcuts pastes and matches the formatting, but this has the same effect of removing the original formatting.

Via [Wayback/Archive] macos word microsoft office paste without formatting – Google Search.

Paste without formatting is an issue on Windows as well. The default should be “paste without formatting” instead of the current “paste with source formatting”. See for instance these tweets:

Note to self: figure out how to configure this from the command-line interface in both Windows and MacOS.

Luckily the WordPress classic editor on Windows supports paste without formatting:

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “TIL: In the WordPress classic editor (which has vastly better a11y and UX than the Gutenberg editor), you can shift-paste to ditch source formatting. Paste without source formatting should be default as part of accessibility perspective.”

About half a year after scheduling this post, the Old New Thing also noticed paste-without-formatting is hard: [Wayback/Archive] Commonly-supported Windows shortcuts for pasting without formatting – The Old New Thing (with workarounds stripping formatting through the run dialog or find dialog.

Related blog post: Excel for MacOS seems to have no post-paste shortcut to modify the paste options.

–jeroen

 

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