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Pro tip: Ctrl-Shift-V pastes with formatting stripped in many systems. Also, on most Google apps including Docs and Gmail, Ctrl-\ (backslash) will reset the fo
by jpatokal 8y ago
Pro tip: Ctrl-Shift-V pastes with formatting stripped in many systems.
Also, on most Google apps including Docs and Gmail, Ctrl-\ (backslash) will reset the formatting of selected text.
- saagarjha 8y agoAnd on macOS, the standard way to do this is "Edit > Paste and Match Style".
- rando444 8y agoWindows has the same menu options, theirs is just called "Paste without formatting" On mac the shortcut is Command-Option-Shift-V
- Yhippa 8y agoThis almost makes me wonder if paste with formatting should be the longer shortcut and that unformatted paste is the default.
- zeropoint46 8y agoI think so. It's very rare that I need to paste with formatting. The majority of time that I actually use normal paste is when the source content is either of the same format or has no format already.
- dmurray 8y agoThis way is better for discoverability, though, and for showing off when the feature was first introduced.
- ygra 8y agoWord at least lets you choose the default action and offers a little contextual toolbar on paste to change the behavior for that pasted snippet as well. The options are iirc: Paste with original formatting, paste with formatting adjusted to document styles, and paste without formatting.
- Froyoh 8y agoTo paste without leading white space you can paste into Chrome's address bar and recopy the from it. It stops out any formatting and surrounding white space.
- tempestn 8y agoAnd Firefox recently fixed it so this shortcut works! (Previously it was hijacked to show some toolbar or something—don't recall exactly what as I always just groaned and closed it, then opened notepad...)