Friday, December 06, 2013

How to ‘Paste’ unformatted text (Plain Text) using shortcut keys?

We know Ctrl+C key combination is using to copy selected content and Ctrl+V is to paste or place the same in the workspace. We frequently need to paste plain text other than formatted content. To use this feature Windows has not included a direct method. But we can use Ctrl+Alt+ V combination to paste plain text. When pressing this key combination you will get a dialogue box which prompt to choose which type of content you want to paste. Choose 'Unformatted Unicode Text' and then press OK. You will get plain text content and it will be as in same formatting we used in our document. The dialogue box is same as, which is taken from the Edit menu. 


 It is a simple tip to get ‘Paste Special Dialogue Box’. By opening this you can easily choose ‘Unformulated Unicode text’. It is useful to filter the content copied.