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by stedaniels 1214 days ago
What platform are you on? Doesn’t CTRL+SHIFT+V work for you?
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Nope. Most Microsoft apps don't support this standard. I think for teams you have to add alt or something or other. I think this is macs only. Cmd shift opt v https://businesstechplanet.com/how-to-paste-without-formatti...

Word has some ribbon bullshit: https://www.howtogeek.com/679956/how-to-paste-text-without-f...

Ctrl-shift-V definitely does something different to Ctrl-V but it will still “helpfully” autoformat your input (mostly adjust indentation - removing white space for example) which kinda defeats the purpose in almost all circumstances beyond pasting a single line of english.