Here’s a simple keystroke that I find I’m using more and more:
Shift-Option-Cmd V
As I get older, I find it harder to remember long strings of modifier keys, so I think of this as ‘V with everything except control’!
This does a paste from the clipboard without any formatting. In days of yore, most cut-and-paste operations were just plain text anyway but, increasingly, I’m finding that when I copy text from a webpage to an email, from a document to a blog post, and so forth, it brings across too much of the formatting with it and I end up with chunks in the wrong font size, or with funny line spacing etc. Occasionally this is useful, but more often than not I just want the plain text, or I want to control the formatting carefully.
That’s when you need today’s mantra:
Cmd-C to copy, V with all but Control to paste!
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