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Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows
Sadly, doesn't work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.
Funny enough, I've found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality
Yeah this doesn’t work anywhere in Office apps
Never in my entire life have I wanted to paste with formatting into a word doc, and you always have to click the stupid little clipboard icon after you paste to undo it.
Ctrl + Alt + V
Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.
Ctrl + Win + Alt + V works everywhere I've tried it.
Linux too, at least in most applications I've tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.
Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.
Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that "uploading an image" thing when pasting text?
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Ctrl shift v
It's not 100% accurate though. It's app dependant, sometimes it work (most of the time) but in some app it won't (office?)
I got Pure Text from Windows Store. Bind it to ctrl+shift+v and if now works everywhere, 100% of the time. That's the only feature of the app.
Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.
I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up
I keep a notepad document of my desktop for making temporary notes on.
I also appreciate that Notepad notes now don't need to be manually saved to a file. They're probably in temp storage somewhere, but the point is you can just write and close.
To be honest I don't think notepad is sophisticated enough to do it, but don't quote me on that
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Here’s the deal Notepad, we can’t trust MS Word to remove all the nonsense.
Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting
Ha! Welcome to the club, normie! :-)
Does anyone else use the .LOG feature?
Put .LOG at the beginning of a text file. When opened in Notepad, you should get a date & time stamp.
Open filename.txt, type something, save and close.
Now you have a journal for system and config changes, document collections, time entries, client visits, whatever. Has worked on every Windows box I ever had to use.
Windows Power Toy run provides multiple date and time generation capability in built
Is this something I'm too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?
You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your email or word processor, it copies the formating too and everything looks wonky. If you paste the clipboard content in a text editor, like notepad and copy the text from there, you strip the formating.
That is what the post is refering to.
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If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar
I recently had to remove line breaks from the public key in a key pair, why did I never think of doing this
As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.
I couldn't do my job anymore without them.
Every text editor removes formatting, plain txt files don't have any format. but text editors, like Notepad are very usefull to edit eg, config files or scripts, where isn't desirable to change the original format. There are apps way more useless than Notepads-
I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.
Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like "Paste Without Formatting" failed in more than a few cases.
Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.
Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting
Outlook intercepts and disables it because of course it does and instead pastes it with the formatting but with a little drop down box at the end of your text pass address you can click to remove the formatting like you tried to do with you with hotkeys.
I have to use Outlook for work, but never intentionally do so if I choice. Truly amazing. If there's anything that can be messed up, it will be.
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I'm trying to remember if I've ever run kwrite beyond the first time 20 years ago when I wanted to see what it was.
I fuckin love Notepad. No decorations, no flourish, just me and my raw thoughts
I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.
There is a good chance that whatever you are pasting is being sent to Google.
Huge chance. No question.
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Don't shame notepad! Just the other day I had to alter a host file so a computer could talk to a server! That's a very important thing and I wouldn't have been able to do it without trusty notepad!
I was already done with windows, but if I hadn’t decided yet the AI in notepad definitely would have put me over the edge. That’s insane.
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This is literally my primary use of notepad.
ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You're welcome.
lol too good
So windows 11 sucks for a number of reasons, but one thing it doesn't suck for is updating the notepad program to have autosave and being able to reopen last notes even if not saved to a file directly. Makes it actually usefull as a notepad
It does AI autocorrect to text though, which I'm not sure how I feel. It hasn't ruined anything for me just yet, but they're starting to try and make it automagical, which is exactly what I needed not to be.
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