[bryanrasmussen]

On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.

[wintermutestwin]

Thanks so much for this - I can't imagine how much time I have wasted jumping through goofy hoops trying to change the formatting in gmail.

If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting.

FWIW, shift+command+v works for me...

[em500]

> If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/copy-paste-text-without-format...

(MS Office requires a slightly different procedure: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/287159/is-there-a-...)

[olalonde]

I used to paste to use the URL bar to paste without formatting and copy again. This is a game changer.

[bryanrasmussen]

hah you're right, I don't know why I had that option in there, maybe snuck into my muscle memory from something else.

maybe it was in one of the older macs I had to use recently, or some combination with voiceover that I was running.

[tbrock]

I think you just need to add shift, option is not necessary.

[itcrowd]

It's optional

[kennywinker]

Option was required in every app I've ever tried this in... do you somehow have different keybindings than me?

[olalonde]

I just tried in Gmail and cmd-shift-v worked.

[spookthesunset]

I do command-shift-v all the time too and it works. Course maybe the places where it doesn't seem to work are the ones that require "option" too... hmm...

[dwaite]

Chrome does not use the system-wide key shortcut but defines their own.

[jtbayly]

Except Chrome, which is often where people are using gmail.

[Foivos]

Maybe it is related to the language of the keyboard.

[vandahm]

That's a lot of finger gymnastics, but it's probably better than `pbpaste|pbcopy`, which is how I've been doing it all these years.

[SpelingBeeChamp]

Not if you assign it a hotkey in Keyboard Maestro :)

On my MacBook Pro, Command + Option + V universally executes the following AppleScript:

  use scripting additions
  do shell script "pbpaste | pbcopy"
  return

[solveit]

Thank you! I will now use pbpaste|pbcopy

[barbazoo]

That's guitar barre chord level difficulty

[antifa]

I wish MSTeams supported ancient well established UI/UX conventions, this one most of all.