Tip – Keyboard shortcut for Paste As Plain Text in SharePoint

Date:June 14th, 2012 Author:Ryan Tags: Rich Text Editor, SharePoint, Tip
Category: General Comments:5 ;

If you spend any amount of time copy and pasting stuff into SharePoint’s wiki or rich text fields (or indeed working with web based rich text editors of any kind) then you’ve undoubtedly have been burned by the crAz^Y FormaAtin_g monster! This is because the formatting that works so beautifully in one place may not work well in another site.

Of course in SharePoint 2010 you’ve got the Paste as plaintext option in the toolbar, but I am a keyboard warrior damn it! I don’t have time for faffing about with a mouse!

If you’re as impatient as I am (or aren’t using SharePoint 2010) you’ve probably got around this with the Notepad dance to remove formatting – Select source, CTRL+C, Open Notepad, CTRL+V, CTRL+A (select All), CTRL+C, switch to destination and finally CTRL+V to paste plain text… but there is an easier way – CTRL + SHIFT + V to Paste As Plain Text!

If you’re using :-

• Google Chrome – its built in! Just use CTRL+SHIFT+V.
• Firefox – you can install this plugin.
• Otherwise –  you can install the Pure Text Plus app to add a paste as plain text option to all Windows programs.

Tags: Rich Text Editor, SharePoint, Tip

5 Responses to “Tip – Keyboard shortcut for Paste As Plain Text in SharePoint”

1. oxbcat says:

   June 18, 2012 at 7:23 pm

   Or Just use Pure Text

   http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

2. Ryan says:

   June 19, 2012 at 9:49 am

   Pure Text Plus that was linked in the article is based on Steve’s Pure Text project.

3. Nicolas Martinez says:

   July 26, 2012 at 7:51 am

   This shortcut seems also widely used in many other programs (GMail for instance).

4. Dario says:

   November 10, 2014 at 10:09 am

   Is it possibile to set Paste Clean Text as default option when pasting text?

5. Ryan says:

   November 10, 2014 at 10:30 am

   I don’t think so Dario.