The two most recent versions of Microsoft's word processor let you paste plain text rather than formatted text and graphics when you press Ctrl-V or click the Paste button. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Are you tired of the way Word pastes text into your document along with all of the formatting from the other document or Web page intact? And you're not going to take it anymore? Well, I can help you ...

In Microsoft Word and Excel, add only the text you copy from a Web page or other source, and leave the images, formatting, and other nontext elements behind. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

We've been using copy-and-paste shortcuts to move text between applications for years. And products like Microsoft's Word and other 365 productivity apps have annoyed us for just as long when copying ...

Tell me if you’ve had this problem: you copy some text and paste it into a word processor, a spreadsheet, or any other app that supports stylized text and end up with text that looks different than ...

The Paste Plain Text shortcut in Word for Windows and Word for Mac allows users to paste text without the formatting of the source. This helps with streamlining the entire document properly with ...

Pasting plain text in Windows isn’t as easy as in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Hitting Ctrl + Shift + V to dump out a clean copy of your clipboard isn’t universally supported, so you’ll ...

Windows only: Better Paste is a simple, lightweight application (or AutoHotkey script) that tweaks the default Ctrl+V paste shortcut such that it pastes plain text every time; if you want formatted ...

I posted this in the software thread but I realize now this is probably a Windows question...<P>How do you copy/paste plain text only and not rich text? I always have to use "Paste Special" because ...

[Update 15-Mar-08: An improved version of script below appears in “Updated Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008,” 2008-03-15. -Joe Kissell] Don’t get me started on Word 2008. Suffice it to say ...

I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu 15.10 quite a bit, and I have an issue when using the Terminal: if I paste into the terminal, then I get control characters before the text. This happens most of all when ...