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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...
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.