Microsoft is lastly including a keyboard shortcut to Phrase that permits you to paste one thing as plaintext, stripping it of any formatting it had while you copied it. It’s the identical Management + Shift + V shortcut that’s utilized in many different apps, and it’s at the moment rolling out to individuals utilizing the Phrase beta on each Mac and PC, according to Microsoft’s Jennifer Gentleman.
Phrase has lengthy allow you to take away formatting from no matter you pasted after the actual fact, utilizing the little ribbon that pops up and provides you the choice to maintain the unique formatting, match the formatting of your doc, or simply use plaintext. Some individuals might favor that choice — one among my colleagues from the UK stated the Ctrl + Shift + V shortcut “isn’t pure in any respect” for him, complicated all of the People till he famous that the ISO keyboard format has a a lot smaller left shift key.
For these with ANSI-layout keyboards, although, getting to make use of the Management + Shift + V shortcut to chop out an additional step might be a pleasant comfort, particularly for those who’re used to it from different apps like Chrome, Slack, or Groups. Whilst you’ve been in a position to hack in a plaintext paste shortcut by the keyboard macros system, I feel much more individuals might use it if it’s obtainable out of the field.
Microsoft can also be making an attempt to make it obtainable system-wide by its PowerToys program, which provides lots of different nifty options to Home windows as properly (although one among my co-workers says they tried enabling it, and it broke copy and paste on his pc, so proceed with warning).
In the event you use a Mac, an app like Pure Paste may also replicate this performance, although that one particularly makes it in order that the default Command + V shortcut pastes in plaintext, so pasting with formatting is the factor that requires an additional step.