[RajT88]

As some have pointed out, CTRL+SHIFT+V will save you here on Windows.

It was annoying before I learned this trick; I had been using Notepad instead to strip formatting.

With the shortcut, this is fine for me for most apps.

What drives me barking, raving, drooling mad is the fact that it is possible for an app to lock the clipboard. Bad apps will silently cause the clipboard to fail to update, which leads to the attentive interrupting their work to go back and re-copy. The less attentive, this leads to them sending a message they did not intend to send!

Bad apps locking the clipboard have been around for a long time now, but seem to have been becoming more common lately. As near as I can tell the locking behavior started with Windows 7, but may have actually been Vista (I never used Vista for my day-to-day work, just test environment).

[rootusrootus]

I wonder if there is a similar workaround in MacOS. I've gotten quite used to putting things in Sublime as an intermediate step to strip formatting, I'd love to be able to skip that.

[kennywinker]

Command-option-shift-V or "claw paste" as I call it

[K7PJP]

Edit ‣ Paste and Match Style is available in most applications. You can assign it to a keyboard shortcut if it's not assigned to one in the app you're using.

Also, I use Typinator, and have assigned an abbreviation to paste as plain text. Text expansion tools are indispensable.

[rootusrootus]

> Typinator

Thanks for the tip, I'm going to check that out.