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by ZeWaka 1494 days ago
It's incredibly annoying in Outlook. Every other Microsoft product I've used like Word supports the key-combo, but of course Outlook has to be different.
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In word, Cntrl Shift V just applies formatting. You have to Ctrl V wait hit Cntrl again and then hit T.
And then there's Excel, where you need to do the same but it's Control + V instead of Control + T.
In Excel you can press F2 before pasting. That takes focus of the cell one level deeper to the input-box, where only plain text is allowed.
Yes, but you can make it work as described by changing a setting in Word.
My company switched to Office over Google and this is by far the worst thing I've come across, and that's saying a lot.
Fucking Microsoft. Why can't things be simple and standardized?
Like the reason ctrl+f in Outlook is to "forward", rather than "find".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...

I've made this "mistake" more times than I'd be willing to admit.
backwards compatibility.

people who have been using those applications for decades do not want those shortcuts to change for any reason.

Haha, I wish they'd thought of that before they implemented the ribbon to replace the menu bar. I can't imagine how many hours of productivity were lost for people dealing with that change.
they did think of that...

you'll be happy to know that a lot of the ribbon is going away in favor of small buttons with icons on them, and people are losing their minds over it. so no matter what Microsoft do, millions of people are gonna bitch about it and complain for years and years.