Shortcuts are an extremely important component in simplifying the user experience across operating system platforms. If you know how to use keyboard shortcuts flexibly, you will see your work performance improve significantly. Such as the case of Ctrl+Shift+V, a useful shortcut but not many people know and take advantage of it.
Paste the text in plain form
You're tired of having to copy and paste text that comes with strange font formats in Windows and don't want to use Notepad as an intermediary. Try Ctrl+Shift+V and you'll get the plain text you want.
By default, when you perform a copy procedure by pressing the key combination Ctrl + C and pasting text with Ctrl + V in Windows, the system clipboard will not only record the selected text, but Remember the format that comes with it. This includes font style, text color, attributes like bold/italic, and even bulleted lists. This behavior has been part of the default Windows experience since at least Windows 3.1 in 1992.
The question is what to do in case the user needs to copy a content in plain text (without additional formatting). That's where Ctrl+Shift+V comes into play.
Whenever you want to paste just text without any information or formatting, press Ctrl+Shift+V in Windows 10 or Windows 11. (On a Mac, you can press Option +Shift+Command+V for the same purpose).
In Microsoft Word
It should be noted that the Ctrl+Shift+V keyboard shortcut does not work in Microsoft Word. Instead, you will need to use a special option in the ribbon menu. Just navigate to the Home tab and click “Paste”. Then, click on the icon that looks like a clipboard with the word “A” on it (“Keep Text Only”). This option will allow you to paste text in plain form, without formatting, similar to the functionality of Ctrl+Shift+V.
You can also change the default behavior in Word to always paste text as plain text. To do so, navigate to File > Options. In the Options menu that opens, click on “Advanced”, then in the drop-down menu “Cut, Copy, and Paste”, click on the option “Keep Text Only”. This way, you can set the Ctrl + V shortcut to always paste plain text in Word.
Hope you can make good use of the effectiveness of keyboard shortcuts in improving your experience!