Copy and Paste Without Styles

I often find myself copy-pasting out of online resources when I’m typing research papers. The issue with this is that I have to go back and reformat the text in order to achieve a homogenous font style. Nowadays, this problem is no more.

Reader Luke, recently submitted a tip informing me that if instead of just “Command+C” and then “Command+V”, I were to hit “Command+C” then “Command+Shift+Option+V”, then the copied font will be pasted in the same format and style as the rest of the font.

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Written by Michael Zhao on May 5, 2008 at 7:00 am - Copy and Paste Without Styles has 9 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, keyboard shortcuts

9 Responses to “Copy and Paste Without Styles”

1. 
   Sam
   I've been annoyed by the style-pasting behaviour in the past, too. Thanks for posting this.
   
   There ought to be a way to have the OS default to this, no? May 5th, 2008 at 7:14 am
   
   
2. 
   Gustavo Delfino
   What I would like is to have:
   “Command+Shift+Option+V” for paste with format
   and
   “Command+V” for paste plain text May 5th, 2008 at 8:16 am
   
   
3. 
   Luke
   To paste a format but not the text:
   Push "command + option + c" to copy a format of a text
   Push "command + option + v" to paste the format May 5th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
   
   
4. 
   ss
   it doesn't work for me, am i doing something wrong when pasting? May 5th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
   
   
5. 
   Nico
   -> Gustavo Delfino: Yeah me too ;-)
   
   But at all it is a shame that this handy short cut only works with Apple Products and not with MS Office, where I would need it the most for Uni. May 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
   
   
6. 
   Mark
   One (kind of) solution is windows is to paste via notepad - not exactly ideal though! May 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
   
   
7. 
   Peter O'Halloran
   That is brilliant! Very handy. But I almost broke my fingers trying to do it! May 5th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
   
   
8. 
   Luke
   Reply to "ss"
   Remember to select the text you want to format and then paste the format.
   
   hope that helps! May 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
   
   
9. 
   Carol
   I bought an new imac but switched keyboards with my old mac mini because I didn't like the new keyboard. Does this tip apply if I am using a different keyboard with my imac?
   Thanks May 31st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
   
   

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