"Simply open clipboard history (WIN + V) and click the … button next to any text-based entry in your clipboard history – you will now see a 'Paste as plain text' option alongside pin and delete," Senior Program Manager Brandon LeBlanc explained. Starting with Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21318, users will see a new option added to the interface, which allows them to remove all formatting from clipboard history items. Press Ctrl + C to copy the text back to the clipboard without formatting.Microsoft has added a 'paste as plain text' option to the Windows 10 clipboard history in the latest Preview build available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.Press Ctrl + A to select the whole text again:.The built-in Notepad app is very suitable for this task. If you have a large block of text in the clipboard, paste it into any text editor which does not support formatting. Now you have only plain text in the clipboard. Press Ctrl + C to copy the text back to the clipboard.Press Ctrl + V to paste the text from the clipboard:.Press Win + R keys together on the keyboard.If an app you are using has no built-in ability to remove the formatting from the text in the clipboard, you can do the following.Īfter copying a short sentence, you can paste it into the Run dialog and then copy the text from there. Once you click it, you can choose the "Unformatted Text" item from the list shown by the "Paste Special" dialog: Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook have a "Paste special" command located in the "Paste" section of the Ribbon after clicking the drop down menu. This trick should work in most Chromium-based browsers too like Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and so on. I covered this trick in detail in the following article: How to paste as plain text in Firefox without third party plugins
Here's an example of pasting with Ctrl+V: And the same content pasted using Ctrl+Shift+V: This works perfectly for websites and web apps which have enhanced text format support in input fields. In Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, you can press Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the text from the clipboard without its formatting. Some apps have a native ability to remove the text formatting.
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