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Comment by etataetaet | Hacker News Reader

Holding shift while pasting will remove all the formatting for most programs! Still annoying but usually an easy fix.

I'd never heard of this, thanks for the tip. I just tried it in Word and had no luck, but it worked in Chrome. Any other programs you're aware of that respect this?

This might be because Word overrides system shortcuts (i.e. the 'paste without formatting' in this case). Google Docs tries to do this in the browser as well, but it happens to support this particular shortcut.

Is "paste without formatting" really a system shortcut? I'd never heard of it before. I feel like it might be something semi-standard that apps implement?

I believe I may have seen it in a shortcut editor somewhere, but I suppose I could be misremembering or that could have been a one-off implementation.

Yeah the two main places where it comes up for me is LebreOffice and Google Docs! I'm surprised as word doesn't have it as its quite useful. It's really nice when I'm doing citations as most titles have some annoying color / font size.

I think there were a couple other programs that worked with it but I forget them! I've had quite a lot of success though as It seems like most of the programs I use respect it.

Word just has you press Ctrl+V to paste the text, and then Ctrl again to select the type of formatting you want to paste it with. It's not as elegant as Ctrl+Shift+V, but it works.

Use Ctrl-Alt-V to paste without formatting in most Office apps. Lots of other Windows apps support Ctrl-Shift-V though.

Wow, thanks!

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