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MissyQ
Aug 19, 2020Former Employee
Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!
Recently, we wanted to dig into how users feel about copying and pasting a URL from their browser. We looked to understand what they do when they copy and paste URLs, as well as the pain points they ...
dcephilpott
Sep 23, 2020Copper Contributor
MissyQ This doesn't work in Google Hangouts/Gchat within gmail. It results in text only and it wasn't intuitive to figure out what was going on.
JaredB81
Sep 23, 2020Former Employee
Thank you, dcephilpott! We've taken note of this.
Note that you can use Ctrl + Shift + V or you can right-click, select "Paste as" and choose "plain text" to paste the plain text URL into Google Hangouts.
If Google Hangouts is a place you paste URLs into very frequently, you can also change your default back to plain text in edge://settings/shareCopyPaste
Thanks again for the feedback!