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I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies: Copy text, data, etc from wherever Paste it into Notepad Copy it again
by RubberbandSoul 5y ago
I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies:
Copy text, data, etc from wherever
Paste it into Notepad
Copy it again
Paste it where you want it and then apply any formatting according to the destination app's formatting rules
Not a great workaround but at least it works.
- toto444 5y agoI used to do that and then I learnt about Crt + Shift + v. That pastes the text without any formatting.
- orangepurple 5y agoIn Windows programs another shortcut for unformatted text is Control Alt V where Control Shift V does not work https://superuser.com/questions/407113/shortcut-in-word-or-excel-for-special-paste https://superuser.com/questions/407113/shortcut-in-word-or-e...
- jon_richards 5y agoThat used to work in Google sheets, but now it only pastes the last thing copied from Google sheets. Really frustrating.
- InitialLastName 5y agoThat's broken in Outlook 2108. Now they want you to paste (CTRL+V) and then hold CTRL and click on/navigate to the obscure icon for the paste variant you want.
- TorKlingberg 5y agoCtrl+Shift+V is great, when it works. Which it doesn't annoyingly often, such as Atlassian's Confluence wiki. So I paste and re-copy things in the URL bar all the time. Ctrl + L V A X
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoAh yes - the "sheepdip" as we call it
- klyrs 5y agoFWIW, this is necessary in linux and android too.
- inetknght 5y ago> I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies I also do that. I 100% attribute that to browsers and people who want to copy/paste HTML and have it all colorized and formatted in the destination app.