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Cloudstepper
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Apr 22, 2020

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...
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    cstepanuk
    Feb 11, 2021

    Cloudstepper

    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!

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ikaakkola
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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..

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AdamPeterson
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Jan 06, 2022

ikaakkola THIS is a great solution.  Thank you!

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