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I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies:

Copy text, data, etc from wherever

Paste it into Notepad

Copy it again

Paste it where you want it and then apply any formatting according to the destination app's formatting rules

Not a great workaround but at least it works.

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> I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies

I also do that. I 100% attribute that to browsers and people who want to copy/paste HTML and have it all colorized and formatted in the destination app.

FWIW, this is necessary in linux and android too.

Ah yes - the "sheepdip" as we call it

I used to do that and then I learnt about Crt + Shift + v. That pastes the text without any formatting.

In Windows programs another shortcut for unformatted text is Control Alt V where Control Shift V does not work

https://superuser.com/questions/407113/shortcut-in-word-or-e...

That used to work in Google sheets, but now it only pastes the last thing copied from Google sheets. Really frustrating.

That's broken in Outlook 2108. Now they want you to paste (CTRL+V) and then hold CTRL and click on/navigate to the obscure icon for the paste variant you want.

Ctrl+Shift+V is great, when it works. Which it doesn't annoyingly often, such as Atlassian's Confluence wiki. So I paste and re-copy things in the URL bar all the time. Ctrl + L V A X

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