1. Shortcut For Cut And Paste
2. Mac Shortcut For Paste As Keep Text Only
3. Keyboard Shortcut For Paste As Values
4. Keyboard Shortcut For Paste Mac
5. Paste Text Shortcut Keyboard
6. Paste As Text Shortcut
7. Excel Shortcut Paste Values Only

When I paste text into an email in Outlook, the following prompt hovers near the text:

Based on the hint, instead of clicking on the button with the mouse, it looks like I should be able to press Ctrl+T. But if I do that, it indents the paragraph.

I used to often find myself coping a piece of code from a website/Word document etc only to discover that when doing Paste I would end up with the desired code plus some extra HTML tags/text, basically extra formatting information. Keep Text Only will only take the text and give it no other formatting. (Shortcut: Press CTRL+ T, to do this quickly after pasting). When this bubble appears, you can even choose which option to set as default. An alternative is to paste as usual, then click the Paste Options button that appears at the end of the pasted content & select Keep Text Only from there. You also have the options of assigning a keyboard shortcut to the PasteTextOnly command as well as using Edit> Paste Special - Unformatted Text.

So what key combination will keep the text only?

11 Answers

I figured it out. It isn't Ctrl+T, it is Ctrl, T (as in press and release Ctrl, then press T).

So, the pattern to paste as text only is: Ctrl+V, Ctrl, T.

Another option is Alt+H+V+T (i.e., keeping Alt pressed until after you press T).

There is an option with a small number of keystrokes, which does not involve an intermediate paste-with-format:

Ctrl+Alt+V, Unformatted text

Taken from an excellent summary of shortcuts.

In Outlook 2016, when you paste, press Ctrl and then click on 'Set default paste...':

When pressing Ctrl

Then just select options, that are appropriate for you.

Shortcut For Cut And Paste

Mac Shortcut For Paste As Keep Text Only

I think I've found a great solution which makes it as good as the one I had in Word 2003 etc. Back then you had to create a macro. I called it 'pasteunformatted' and assign a shortcut key (I used Ctrl+T).

If you goCustomize ribbon > Check 'developer' box to open up that tab, OK. Then select it.

Grab your some text to be copy/pasted from anywhere. This is just to set up the macro.

Click 'Record Macro'. Choose a name. Assign your shortcut key.

Now go Ctrl+V to paste. Then press Ctrl (release) then 't' as described by some users above. Now stop record. You now have a macro that will paste unformatted text as you may have had previously, with the shortcut key you assigned to it.

Hope that helps.

As mentioned in the list of the keyboard shortcuts in the Outlook Help page:

Ctrl+v then Ctrl+SPACE seems a reasonable solution that gives a way to apply the current format of the mail you're writing to the text you paste.An alternative is Ctrl+v then Ctrl+Shift+z which removes any format.

CTRL+V+SPACE worked for me.

But I found a definitive solution on another web site, just by changing my default paste settings. Here are the instructions.

I hope that it works for you.

With show paste options disabled you can press Menu, Ctrl, T, Enter.

The 'Menu' key gives the right-click menu. It’s between Alt and Ctrl, to the right of space on my keyboard.

I am not sure whether this is the answer you are looking for.I have disabled the show paste options ( options --> Mail --> uncheck show paste options when content is pasted into a message)Just using Ctrl+V to paste

Keyboard Shortcut For Paste As Values

I've also found that you can simply right-click and press 'T'.

I was looking for an answer that works in Microsoft Word for Mac. I tried all the answers and none of them worked. Here is the procedure that worked for me:

1- Copy a sample piece of text to the clipboard.

2- View > Macros > Choose Record Macro...

It will open a new window.

3- Click the 'Keyboard' button in the new window.

4- Press Ctrl + h (or whatever combination of buttons that you prefer.)

5- Click the 'OK' button.

6- Use Ctrl + v to paste the copied text to somewhere in your document.

7- Using your mouse, choose paste options, and click on 'Keep Text Only'.

8- View > Macros > Stop Recording

From now on, whenever you want to paste anything with the 'Keep Text Only,' instead of Ctrl + v, you can just press Ctrl + h (or whatever combination of buttons that you prefer.)

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If you use PowerPoint at work or at home, keyboard shortcuts can be a great time saver. Here are some little-known keyboard shortcuts I’ve discovered over the last few years while working on the PowerPoint team. These keyboard shortcuts are designed for PowerPoint for Windows. If you are using PowerPoint for Mac, you can still use them if you replace Ctrl with CMD (⌘) unless stated otherwise. I hope you find these keyboard shortcuts as useful as I have!

Draw horizontal or vertical lines

Press and hold the Shift key while inserting lines to make sure they are perfectly horizontal, vertical or at a 45-degree angle.

Keep objects in proportion

Press and hold the Shift key while resizing shapes and other objects to keep their proportions consistent. This is handy if you want to resize a circle without accidentally turning it into an oval.

Duplicate an object

Adding a bunch of identical objects? Just select your object and press Ctrl+D to duplicate it. This also works on slides.

Copy and paste formatting

If you want to format an object to look just like another object without reapplying all of the formatting by hand, use the formatting clipboard. Select the object whose formatting you want to copy and press Ctrl+Shift+C. Then, select the objects that you want to have the same formatting and press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the formatting. This also works on the slide thumbnails if you have a slide background or theme that you want to copy from slide to slide.

This keyboard shortcut makes use of the Format Painter feature, which also allows you to copy formatting from one shape to another. The keyboard shortcut is a good one to remember since it packs even more power—once you’ve copied the formatting, you can paste the formatting onto as many shapes as you like without having to copy it again.

Group and ungroup

To group objects together, just select the objects and press Ctrl+G. To ungroup, select the object and press Ctrl+Shift+G. If you’re a Mac user, press CMD+Option+G to group and CMD+Option+Shift+G to ungroup.

Insert a new slide

Press Ctrl+M to insert a new slide after the currently selected slide. For PowerPoint for Mac, the keyboard shortcut is the same; you don’t need to substitute CMD.

Keyboard Shortcut For Paste Mac

Zoom

Press and hold the Ctrl key while using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out in the editor. On a touch device, you can pinch to zoom. For PowerPoint for Mac, this is another one where you don’t have to substitute CMD.

Center or align text

To quickly center text, press Ctrl+E. Not happy with your centered text? To go back to left alignment, press Ctrl+L, or press Ctrl+R to right align the text.

Paste Text Shortcut Keyboard

Clear formatting

To remove all formatting from selected text, press Ctrl+Spacebar. This will reset the text back to the default formatting.

PowerPoint content placeholders have logic built in to make sure your text has the right size and formatting to match the rest of your presentation. If you’ve changed the formatting for some text or you have pasted in text that already had formatting on it, you can use the clear formatting shortcut to make the text match the design of the rest of your presentation again.

Paste As Text Shortcut

To clear formatting on PowerPoint for Mac, simply click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab.

Excel Shortcut Paste Values Only

Start Slideshow

Done editing and ready to present? To start a Slideshow from the first slide, just press F5. If you want to start from the current slide, press Shift+F5 instead.

As a bonus, here are a few more keyboard shortcuts you might have forgotten about. Happy editing!

—Lauren Janas, program manager for the PowerPoint team