When pasting from an article, for example, the pasted text may retain any headings, italics, and more. Unfortunately, however, that is often hampered by the formatting of the text’s source. Many people copy and paste information dozens of times per day, making it important that the feature works quickly and efficiently. The copy and paste shortcuts are among the most used in the world. 4 How to Clear Formatting in Word and Remove a Horizontal Line.3 How to Copy Text Without Formatting Using a Text Editor.2 How to Paste Without Formatting in Word and Microsoft Office.1 How to Paste Without Formatting From a Document to an Email.While looking for ways to view the raw pasteboard data on my Mac I stumbled across a fantastic TidBITS article which goes into a bit more detail and taught me about an additional pasteboard-like feature from the unix underpinnings called a kill-ring.For more information on how this all works under the covers, Apple’s developer documentation is very good… UIPasteboard for iOS and NSPasteboard for macOS.It seems to favour sharing the unstyled text between devices (macOS to iOS or iOS to iOS). In my limited testing the Universal clipboard behaves a bit differently.If you use any cross-platform apps (such as Chrome, Atom or Slack) you’ll often find the equivalent shortcut in them is ⌘⇧V (no option key) Microsoft has probably copied implemented a similar feature on Windows If you just want the URL you can use ⌘⌥⇧V to “Paste and Match Style”, pasting just the unformatted URL. If you try and paste it into the body of an email message you’ll get the word “Timeline” linked to the url.
If you right click on the Micro.blog “Timeline” link above and choose “Copy Link” you’ll get a rich text link on your clipboard. This can be useful when pasting styled text into Pages or Mail (for example), when you just want the raw text, not all the styles.Īnother time it comes in handy is when copying and pasting links. Under the hood, Paste and Match Style simply pastes in the text only version of whatever is on your clipboard, thereby stripping out fonts, colours, sizes and other rich text formatting. Most people know the basic keyboard shortcuts ⌘X, ⌘C and ⌘V for cut, copy and paste but, if you like to keep your hands on the keyboard as much as possible, an important related Mac keyboard shortcut to know is ⌘⌥⇧V (command-option-shift-v) for “Paste and Match Style” (or “Paste as Text” which is how I think of it).
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