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On a Mac, press Command+Option+Shift+V to paste and match formatting instead. It should work on Windows, Chrome OS, and Linux. This works in a wide variety of applications, including web browsers like Google Chrome. Click OK to close the Word Options dialog box. To paste without formatting, press Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V.The new keyboard shortcut will shift into the Current keys box. If it doesn’t, then the key combination you chose is already used for something else and you’ll have to assign a new combination in the Press new shortcut key field. Checked that Currently assigned to has next to it.They will display in the field similar to this: Alt+P,T (3 in the screenshot). For example, if you want the keyboard shortcut to be Alt+p+t (‘p’ for paste, ‘t’ for text), then press those keys as though you were using them in the document. In the Press new shortcut key field, PRESS the keys you want to use for this shortcut.Scroll down to PasteTextOnly and select it (2 in the screenshot).

In the Commands list (top right box), type p to get to the commands starting with ‘p’.

Scroll down the list of Categories (top left box) to All commands and select it (number 1 in the screenshot below).

Below the left panel of commands, click the Customize button (next to Keyboard shortcuts) to open the Customize Keyboard dialog box.

Click Customize ribbon in the left panel.

On the File menu, click Options to open the Word Options dialog box.

Note: As far as I’m aware you can do this in all versions of Word from at least Word 2010 onwards. However, if you have to do this a lot, there’s another, much easier, way - assign a keyboard shortcut to the ‘paste as unformatted text’ command. If not Ctrl-Shift-V, is there some other way in Office (just like Ctrl-F in Outlook doesn't find, grrr.I’ve previously written about using toolbar icons, macros, or other features of Word to paste copied text as unformatted text (see and ). This is currently how Teams works too, so at least some of the dev teams at MS, must be aware of this semi-standard keyboard shortcut. It still holds that meaning for me, because other programs still use that.

Windows keyboard shortcut to paste text windows#

For those of us who remember moving from WordPerfect to Word for Windows as Word took over as the dominant word processor, Ctrl-Shift-V had always before been Paste Plain Text (paste without any formatting).

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points out, Ctrl-Shift-V pasting formatting is inconsistent with the rest of Windows and Microsoft's own Teams and new URL paste feature for Edge, plus older system before the Windows version of Office (I realize that's going back an obscenely long time). I found this page, because I was looking again to check if Word offered a simple way to paste plain text, instead that's quicker than Ctrl-V (or Shift-Ins) to paste, then Ctrl, then wait a second, then press T to convert to plain text. I'm a fairly heavy keyboard shortcut user and that's a new one for me. One of the most common is the ability to write text, having become an ideal substitute. So this sounds like the keyboard shortcut for the Format Painter. The computer has become an indispensable tool in our day to day, with which we can perform all kinds of tasks. Text formatting keyboard shortcuts Use these shortcuts to format text in fields, field labels, and text objects in Browse and Layout modes. I had not realized that Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V copied and pasted formatting without text. If the current Find/Replace direction is Backward, the reverse keyboard shortcut switches the direction to Forward.