“Ctrl-Shift-V” is back in Word, or am i dreaming…..

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Ok, so not the most important topic out there and after doing a bit of googling, it really hasn’t gone away, but at the same time I’m not the only one that has said a geeky wow.

Earlier this week, started up Microsoft 365 / click to run Word, and up came one of Microsoft’s pop-up “new features” window stating Ctrl-Shift-V to paste plain text is available.  And sure enough it now works.

Don’t remember when Microsoft removed this feature from Office, I want to say 5 years ago, but to say one of my favourite keyboard shortcut was unceremoniously removed from Microsoft Office, was earth shattering to me, is an understatement.  Though I moved on, as there are bigger things to life than worrying about a discontinued keyboard shortcut.

Now it’s back, or at least in Word (along with some other paste features).  And I did happen to notice it doesn’t work in OneNote, at least not when I tested it later in the week.

What says the community?

Take care,

IT Manager Geek

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Not sure it ever worked in Word (except on web) until about a year ago:

You might be familiar with this shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V (Cmd + Shift + V on Mac)—it’s also called “keep text only” or “paste plain text”—because of its popularity in other applications like Microsoft Teams, Word for the web, Google, and Gmail. No matter what you call it, the Paste Text Only shortcut is now available in Word for Windows and Word Mac.
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In the case of keyboard shortcuts, the industry standard has diverged from Word’s initial implementation of these features. Indeed, users expect that Ctrl + Shift + V will paste plain text, so when this doesn’t work, the experience can be frustrating. The Word team heard about this problem from users, so we’re updating keyboard shortcuts as a direct response to your feedback.

Microsoft 365 Insider — Blog — Paste Text Only shortcut in Word

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TechTango

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What says the community?

For my part I was also a fan of Ctrl+Shirft+V.  Dang near forgot about it.  Thanks.

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The alternative to that keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Shift +V) in Word to paste in plain text has been there for a long time. It pastes unformatted text and using the formatting set in Word at the point the text is pasted. On my 2019 Click to Run version the above keyboard shortcut doesn’t work but the alternative keyboard sequence still does.

Copy the text you want
Place the pointer at the point where you want the text pasting using the formatting at that point in the document.
Press and release the following keys in this order: Alt, H, V, T

One key more than the shortcut, but you don’t have to hold several keys down at once.

HTH, Dana:))

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Cybertooth

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I don’t use Word much, certainly not experienced like many of you, but I have always used ctrl-v to paste (ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-x to cut) in Word as well as most other programs. I might be missing something here… : )

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Ctrl-shift-V is a paste without formatting, so the text pasted will match the font of whatever else is there.  If you paste with ctrl-V a sentence from 3 different websites it will typically look like a ransom note because each sentence will have its own font, size and maybe even indentation or centering.

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rdleib

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IT Manager Geek wrote:

Now it’s back, or at least in Word (along with some other paste features).  And I did happen to notice it doesn’t work in OneNote, at least not when I tested it later in the week.

BTW, that Ctrl + Shift +V keyboard shortcut is the same keyboard shortcut used on this forum to Paste as plain text in your postings.

HTH, Dana:))

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I’m sort of amazed.

In Word, I have always used Ctrl + Shift + C to copy formatting and then Ctrl + Shift + V to paste that formatting onto existing text, NOT to paste unformatted text.  This has worked for 22 years.

Did something change due to sunspot activity?

 

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User feedback, not sunspots.

See the two tables in the article linked in the second post.

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glnz

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b – thanks.  I don’t understand why MS would change shortcuts used by millions from one thing to another thing.

I long ago mapped “Paste Unformatted” onto Ctrl + Shift + U on my PC, so I had it.  Why couldn’t MS figure out the same?

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I’m running Office365 in a corporate environment. Ctrl-Shift-V worked for me for a couple of months, but recently has stopped working in Word (still works in Excel). Very strange.

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Kurt – when you say “worked”, what do you mean?  That it was pasting unformatted?  And now that no longer happens?

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