Comments on: Keyboard Shortcut to Paste Plain Text

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:31:34 +0000

Crtl + Alt + v doesn’t always work, it works between MS Office apps bur for example not with Office Communicator – MOC – (in my instance CRL + ALT + v didn’t do anything at all when trying to paste a formatted text into MOC that I didn’t want to have formatted) So those ‘funny’ programs fit a purpose….

By: John D.

John D. — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:53:12 +0000

That is too funny. How long has Ctrl-Alt-V been around?

By: Lee C.

Lee C. — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:57:37 +0000

You do not need all of that hocus pocus. Just hit Ctrl + Alt + v instead of Ctrl + v. So simple.

By: rmacd

rmacd — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:39:57 +0000

It is possible in Word 2007 to choose the options for pasting text both within document and between documents.

1. Click the Office button.
2. Click the Word Options button.
3. Click Advanced on the left side of the window.
4. Under the Cut, Copy, And Paste section, selection the options for pasting in the same document, between different documents and between programs.
5. Click OK.

Simple!

By: Amanda Greenslade

Amanda Greenslade — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:10:09 +0000

I agree it would be useful to be able to paste without formatting in any programs in Windows. This is useful for website developers, email marketers, graphic designers etc. but I’d rather not have to run another program in my sys tray to do it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:34:42 +0000

Ha! I was browsing through these entries and I saw “Thor” and nearly jumped out of my seat. That’s my name – is it yours?

Anyway, I’ve been looking for a way to create kybrd shortcut that will allow me to paste a set piece of text (no matter what I put on the clipboard). So for example, if I wanted to paste “The notes have been entered for 10/30/2009″ in several different documents, databases, etc. through a kybrd shortcut (say, CTRL VP or something)would that be possible?

Thanks in advance.

Thor

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:36:34 +0000

Awesome: I’ll make sure to remember that shortcut.

By: Thor

Thor — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:12:57 +0000

In Open Office Writer: Shift+Ctrl+V and then select Unformatted Text to paste plain text.

By: Ubuntuuser

Ubuntuuser — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:21:07 +0000

Well, I had a good laugh. Linux, e.g. Ubuntu, was capable of using shortcuts for a long time. You can assign your own system wide shortcuts as many as you like- a special tab lists the most common and you can add new ones.
As for Office 2007, out of the office you can use OpenOffice.org and all is set. But at my office desk I agree, that 2007 is a nuissance and all of my colleagues are wishing Billy to hell.

I hope Linux evolves to a new OS where it can compete in EVERY aspect against Microsoft.

By: BritSwedeGuy

BritSwedeGuy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:06:01 +0000

It says a lot that it’s taken the debacle that was Vista to get M$ listening to customers.
Yep, I’ve missed unformatted copy/paste too, sometimes Paste special is just not available so I’ve had to paste into a txt file and then cut and paste again. It’s the 21st Century FFS!