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Copy formatted text and paste as plain text
Huge need:
Using a Mac: I am constantly needing to copy formatted text from another source (like Jira) and paste it into a Teams chat as plain text and am astounded that this cannot be done in Teams. It is a productivity killer to have to constantly paste single lines into the browser address bar or a search field and then select and copy again in order to paste as plain text into a chat. Worse is when the content is several lines and I have to open a plain text editor, paste, select, copy, switch to Teams, and paste. MS of all companies should be able to do this in Teams.
I was playing around with Teams one day and tried this, when you paste, use Shift + Option + Command + V, it appears to work for me. The Shift + Option modifiers doesn't seem to work with the right-click menu, but it does wth the keyboard.
Cheers!
I was playing around with Teams one day and tried this, when you paste, use Shift + Option + Command + V, it appears to work for me. The Shift + Option modifiers doesn't seem to work with the right-click menu, but it does wth the keyboard.
Cheers!
For Windows users this is Ctrl+Shift+V. On some machines this keyboard shortcut is already assigned to some other action, like taking a screen shot. If this is the case then you can disable it in that application. For example, in HyperSnap go to Setup | Hot keys | Customize Keyboard and scroll down to Virtual Desktop the click the Remove button.
- Thanks. Simple but great workaround, on Windows use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste something as plain text. It may not be a MS Teams feature, but a system feature. Solves it for many cases.
cstepanuk Thanks, never noticed that there is an option to "Paste and Match Style"
To make life less miserable, you can override the shortcut for this to be Command + V
1. open System Preferences
2. navigate to Keyboard
3. select Shortcuts tab
4. select App Shortcuts from the left side
5. Click on '+' to create a new App Shortcut
5.1 Select "Microsoft Teams" as Application
5.2 Enter "Paste and Match Style" as menu item
5.3 Set cmd-v as shortcut
Repeat for "Paste" menu item, setting the shortcut for it to eg. shift-cmd-v so you can still paste formatted things if you really need to..
ikaakkola THIS is a great solution. Thank you!
Yes, that works. Thank you very much for sharing!
Good call Cloudstepper ,
Add it to the Uservoice! The Teams team looks at that source to decide what to build next.
Thank you marijnsomers. I thought this was that place. I appreciate you directing me to the right place.
Best,
Larry
