Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like "Paste Without Formatting" failed in more than a few cases.
Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.
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Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting
Outlook intercepts and disables it because of course it does and instead pastes it with the formatting but with a little drop down box at the end of your text pass address you can click to remove the formatting like you tried to do with you with hotkeys.
I have to use Outlook for work, but never intentionally do so if I choice. Truly amazing. If there's anything that can be messed up, it will be.
Also, the “Paste Without Formatting” button is paste without formatting
I'm trying to remember if I've ever run kwrite beyond the first time 20 years ago when I wanted to see what it was.
I was already done with windows, but if I hadn’t decided yet the AI in notepad definitely would have put me over the edge. That’s insane.
Yeah they just want to collect every single bit of data you have. AI is a data collection tool. A reason to send everything you type or use to their servers. I swapped to Linux fully over 4 years ago and my windows 10 install is still sitting on my older SSD drive. It's a good reminder to format that thing and use it as a backup drive in my Unraid setup.
I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.
There is a good chance that whatever you are pasting is being sent to Google.
Im using safari and more recently opera, but since that is chinese now, im guessing this isnt much better :D
Huge chance. No question.
I use Firefox with DuckDuckGo. But I do agree that Google is so pervasive in the browser space that pasting text to the URL bar without further context can be reasonably understood in most instances, as sending data to Google.
What is a good linux program that serves this same purpose? Specifically removing formatting from copied text.
Vi
Notepad in wine ^(/s)
gnote usually works
Sublime. It's more like notepad++ but will serve the purpose.
So windows 11 sucks for a number of reasons, but one thing it doesn't suck for is updating the notepad program to have autosave and being able to reopen last notes even if not saved to a file directly. Makes it actually usefull as a notepad
It does AI autocorrect to text though, which I'm not sure how I feel. It hasn't ruined anything for me just yet, but they're starting to try and make it automagical, which is exactly what I needed not to be.
Oh gross. I haven't noticed that yet but will watch out for it
Super + R.
it is windows btw
Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows
Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.
Sadly, doesn't work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.
Funny enough, I've found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality
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Linux too, at least in most applications I've tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.
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Ctrl shift v
It's not 100% accurate though. It's app dependant, sometimes it work (most of the time) but in some app it won't (office?)
I got Pure Text from Windows Store. Bind it to ctrl+shift+v and if now works everywhere, 100% of the time. That's the only feature of the app.
I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.
"Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn't see syntax highlighting until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!"
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Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.
It's that the one that wants me to use it's AI editor?
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I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up
I also appreciate that Notepad notes now don't need to be manually saved to a file. They're probably in temp storage somewhere, but the point is you can just write and close.
To be honest I don't think notepad is sophisticated enough to do it, but don't quote me on that
I keep a notepad document of my desktop for making temporary notes on.
Just wait until the AI assistant gets added 🤢
Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting
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