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Shreff
Copper Contributor
Nov 14, 2023

Update caused pasted text to automatically highlight

The recent update to the "new" Teams as made it so that anytime I copy text on a website and paste it into chat it auto-highlights the text. This has added an annoying step in my process when I communicate long complex contract numbers to have to un-highlight everything I type after the paste. I would just like to find a way to go back to where I could copy text from the browser and paste it with it being plain text. 

  • akrytus's avatar
    akrytus
    Copper Contributor

    Shreff 

     

    This is very frustrating for all of us, but in the meantime, you can use the following as a work around.

     

    When you paste, use Ctrl+Shift+V.  This will eliminate all formatting. 

     

    Hope that helps! 

    • unhappy1371's avatar
      unhappy1371
      Copper Contributor

      Ctrl+Shift+V does nothing. It does not paste.
      Only Ctrl+V pastes and it makes the thing being pasted unreadable.
      Which basically means nothing can be pasted in Teams

       

    • Apollos's avatar
      Apollos
      Copper Contributor

      I use a Surface Book 3 for work and Ctrl+Shift+V does not work.
      Microsoft, please provide an update!

  • Shreff I'm not really sure I understand the change you are seeing, but to paste text without formatting using Ctrl-Shift-V rather than Ctrl-V on Windows.

    • Shreff's avatar
      Shreff
      Copper Contributor

      StevenC365 That works, but it's pulling the background color formatting off the website and pasting it as a highlight. It never did this before a month ago. 

  • callumcuro's avatar
    callumcuro
    Copper Contributor
    Hello,

    Any update Microsoft? this issue is really annoying and was caused through a teams update.

    Thanks!
  • Jay_Arias's avatar
    Jay_Arias
    Copper Contributor

    How do we remove this annoying paste issue where the root background which otherwise looks invisible is no loading in to the team chat field?

    Shreff 

  • Apollos's avatar
    Apollos
    Copper Contributor

    Temp work around
    I turned on Clipboard History. Then press Win + V, next to the item you want to paste click the 3 dots and Paste as Text.