<story><title>Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?</title><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages&amp;#x2F;apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.&lt;p&gt;Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling&amp;#x2F;formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will  mesh well. It&amp;#x27;s just baffling.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.</text></item><item><author>bombledmonk</author><text>In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v.  Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.&lt;p&gt;Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.digikey.com&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-everywhere-slack-excel-outlook-kicad-and-more&amp;#x2F;13405&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.digikey.com&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wintermutestwin</author><text>Thanks so much for this - I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how much time I have wasted jumping through goofy hoops trying to change the formatting in gmail.&lt;p&gt;If only there was a way to set this as the default and format pasting as the shift setting.&lt;p&gt;FWIW, shift+command+v works for me...</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?</title><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages&amp;#x2F;apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.&lt;p&gt;Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling&amp;#x2F;formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will  mesh well. It&amp;#x27;s just baffling.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.</text></item><item><author>bombledmonk</author><text>In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v.  Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.&lt;p&gt;Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.digikey.com&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-everywhere-slack-excel-outlook-kicad-and-more&amp;#x2F;13405&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.digikey.com&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbrock</author><text>I think you just need to add shift, option is not necessary.</text></comment>