[hanoz]

> In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v.

Sometimes that trick just stops working for no reason at all, then there's nothing else for it but to paste into notepad.exe and re-copy.

[jimlikeslimes]

Just to kind of address the Outlook issue, you can also set the default paste setting to be text only. (sigh) we have to do this.

[rhco]

This is one of my many peeves with Outlooks UX. You can do Ctrl+Alt+V, which gives you an option to paste unformatted, but it's much more finger-intensive than the other shortcut.

[zinekeller]

This is one of those rare times that you can trace it directly to Bill Gates. Another one is Ctrl+F as send and not find (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...)

[conductr]

You have to consider the average user though. They have an image and 4 fonts in their signature, one of which is Comic Sans