

This opens the Run dialog, pastes the clipboard into the edit box, then copies the text back out."

"One trick I use if I need to strip formatting from the clipboard is to use the key sequence Win+R, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Esc. Note that the keys are pressed and released in sequence, not held simultaneously. Programs in the Microsoft Office suite naturally do things a little differently, and the way to paste as plain text is to hit Ctrl+Alt+V and then select “Unformatted Text”. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox all support Ctrl+Shift+V as a keyboard shortcut for “paste as plain text.” WordPress - WordPress comes with a feature that allows you to paste any external text into WordPress and won’t keep all of its internal formattings.
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Pure Text by Steve Miller - It's not perfect, but I am relying on this now, but this is the kind of applet that should be part of Windows by default, or PowerToysįigma - They have to implement their own "Paste as Text", invoked by using Ctrl+Shift+V

Here are the apps that implement this feature:
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How to Paste as Plain Text in Windows 11/10 - 5 Ways.How to Strip Formatting When You Copy and Paste Text: 5 Ways.Supporting information Articles that teach users on how to paste rich text as unformatted text: By pasting in Notepad, you force the clipboard's rich text formatting to be ignored. If they don't have this control, then they have to deal with workarounds, such as: opening Notepad first, pasting text there, and recopying it, then going back to the rich text app, and pasting the plain/unformatted text copied from Notepad. When working with apps that support rich text, users often find the need to paste rich text as plain text, so that they have more control on how to format text that is pasted. Nice to have: An option to hear a sound, indicating that you really have pasted unformatted text (see: Pure Text).This is useful for those situations where you want to paste text and have it formatted like the text where you are pasting instead of keeping the original formatting. This feature should work with one quick keyboard sequence, no UI, no additional clicks or menus. PlainTextClipboard is a very simple program that takes any rich (formatted) text it finds on the clipboard and replaces it with plain (unformatted) text.
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