[adhesive_wombat]

Has anyone ever actually wanted paste from an HTML source into a word processor to drag all the random formatting along for the ride? I still don't understand why that is the default. I see about an email per day with mismatched styles because people are pasting from various documents, each with their own slightly different formatting. No one really cares, presumably, but it's ugly. Give me plain text any day (except as the company logo is inserted as an image, it's verboten by the server now).

It's usually Ctrl-Shift-V to not include formatting (or get a menu of options, of which that's one), by the way.

[namrog84]

I stand by default should be unformatted and preserving formatted should be special ctrl shift v case.

[abdusco]

I like it when Excel parses and recreates a HTML table into a spreadsheet. You could possibly paste it as text and split to columns, but I doubt it would work as well.

[adhesive_wombat]

It still does that, just without formatting, with Ctrl-Shift-V. Or at least LibreOffice Calc does.

[roygbiv2]

Microsoft teams will happily copy the name and time of the person that sent you a message, even though you didn't highlight it. Thanks Microsoft!

[eviks]

Yes, for quotes you'll want to preserve all the bold and italic and other non-random formatting