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Former Employee

Aug 19, 2020

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 ...

ManuelGPz

Copper Contributor

Nov 23, 2020

MissyQ This function is not currently not working for me when I use Office desktop apps.
The Ctrl+V works correctly adding the tittle of the header with the hyperlink. But the Ctrl+Shift+V doesnt paste the plain hyperlink test.

I'd suggest to keep the standard Ctrl+V behaviour ( pasting plain text ) and adding the new function ( Paste Title + Hyperlink ) to Ctrl+Shift+V to avoid problems with standard apps.

All that said I think it is a clever function and a really nice productivity boost, so I would like to congrat and thank you for the great idea.

Adam Fowler

Iron Contributor

Nov 24, 2020

My suggestion would be to put Ctrl+V back the way it was, and instead makes Ctrl+Shift+V do this cool new function.

JaredB81
Former Employee
Nov 24, 2020
Thanks, Adam Fowler

I appreciate the suggestion of reverting the default and having a shortcut key for the new behavior as an option.

Note that you can change your default paste option in Edge settings under "Share, Copy & Paste" to set it back to the full plain text URL and then use the right-click "Paste as" menu to paste as a link within Edge. I hear you though on also wanting a shortcut key for link when plain text is the default.

Thanks again!
Jared