Because the clipboards are different, you must be consistent with the command usage, and you can’t cross from one to the other without pasting the text elsewhere and then recopying it again. Paste in the desired location with Control+Y (rather than command+v)Īgain, these alternate cut & paste commands remove all formatting and styling, and they also use an alternative clipboard so you will not rewrite anything in the primary clipboard.Highlight the text and hit Control+K to ‘cut’ without formatting (rather than command+c).2: Remove Formatting with the Alternate Cut & Paste CommandsĪlternate what now? Many don’t know this, but other than Command+C and Command+V there are an alternate set of cut and paste commands available in Mac OS X that also use an alternate clipboard, but also have the added benefit of stripping formatting from copied text. Thanks to and others for pointing out this modifier sequence on twitter and in the comments, and thanks to Rob for clarifying the function. Notice the difference from the normal Command+V paste trick, which would include the formatting. Paste the copied text and match current style by using Command+Option+Shift+V.It’s just a variation of the normal copy & paste trick: There’s a modifier command to change how paste works so that it “matches style”, which if you’re pasting into a plain text document or a new email composition, will removes all font styles and formatting in that pasting process, regardless of what is stored in the clipboard. 1: Strip Styling & Formatting with a Special Paste & Match Style Command

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