{"id":363,"date":"2023-01-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/?p=363"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:50:09","slug":"taking-ctrl-paste-text-without-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2023\/01\/24\/taking-ctrl-paste-text-without-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Ctrl: Paste text without Formatting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I often copy and paste bits of text from one place to another, but don&#8217;t necessarily want the formatting that comes with the text. Just using Ctrl + V, or selecting &#8216;paste&#8217; brings that formatting across. This means that text might look &#8216;odd&#8217; when pasting it into another document, or something like a Canvas page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Windows: Ctrl + Shift + V<\/li><li>Mac: Option + Shift + Command + V<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This means you just keep the characters, meaning your pasted text looks the same as the rest. This works in lots of desktop applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Microsoft Applications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this in Word, right-click and select &#8216;paste without formatting&#8217; as below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2021\/03\/Keep-Text-Only.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-367\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"208\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/files\/2021\/03\/Keep-Text-Only.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Try it today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem I often copy and paste bits of text from one place to another, but don&#8217;t necessarily want the formatting that comes with the text. Just using Ctrl + V, or selecting &#8216;paste&#8217; brings that formatting across. This means that text might look &#8216;odd&#8217; when pasting it into another document, or something like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2023\/01\/24\/taking-ctrl-paste-text-without-formatting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking Ctrl: Paste text without Formatting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[12,508,510,569,507,509],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-ctrl","tag-canvas","tag-efficiency","tag-keyboard-shortcuts","tag-text-editing","tag-word","tag-work-smart-not-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}