On some—but not all—apps, when you press Ctrl-V (Win)/Cmd-V (Mac), you can press Shift too. This activates “Paste and Match Style,” which converts the text to the same style as the destination document. This is usually what you want.
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On a Mac, some apps make you press Option as well as Shift and Cmd. Guessing which one each app uses is annoying. But you can fix that with our next method.
Method 2: Make a keyboard shortcut
On MacOS, you can easily assign a keyboard shortcut to any menu item. You can assign Cmd-Shift-V to “Paste and Match Style” so it always works, in every app.
Or you can reverse the default behavior: assign Cmd-V to Paste and Match Style, and Cmd-Shift-V to Paste. Developer Craig Hockenberry wrote up a guide for this particular case, including a few details to make sure everything’s exactly correct.
To assign a keyboard shortcut on Windows, you’ll need a third-party app. Gizmodo recommends the free apps WinHotKey and AutoHotkey.
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There’s one more option on Windows: download PureText, a free app just for stripping out formatting. A dedicated app for pasting seems like a lot, but it’s no worse than downloading a keyboard shortcut app.
But remember
There are a few times when you do want to paste with formatting. The most common is when you’re pasting linked text. Say you wanted to paste the previous paragraph into an email with the links intact. In some apps, using Paste and Match Style will strip that text.
You have two options, both of which kind of stink. You can “paste and match style,” but you’ll need to manually add the links back in. Or you can paste, and you’ll need to manually change the font and size of the text.
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On Gmail, select all your pasted text and open the Formatting options menu next to the Send button. Select the font and type size that matches the rest of your email. (If you’re not sure, select your entire email before you pick the font and size.) If applicable, change the text color and bold/italic/underline options too.
After downloading apps and assigning keyboard shortcuts, you’ve successfully moved a line of text from one part of your computer to another. Congratulations! Computers make life easy!
Windows: When I get WPRF (weird paste related formatting) I always paste into notepad first then copy from there. Its an extra step but works
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