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To add my own anecdote, I've needed to use a lot of spreadsheets the last couple weeks and quickly became annoyed that different cells could have different fonts (which would sometimes happen when I was pasting in data). Of course I quickly learned to just paste in everything unformatted, but I thought to myself "why would anyone want to set fonts per cell?" I guess I just don't get out enough.

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The "paste with styles" default is one of the worst things ever IMO. It's almost never what I want.

I hate it so much... some programs are even worse, they don't take ctrl shift v to get rid of the garbage. I've made it a habit to first paste stuff in a text editor, copy it again, and then paste it into programs like outlook so the formatting won't be all messed up...

Still don't know of a single case where the "feature" was useful.

Fortunately Teams takes ctrl shift v, and it also leaves links untouched.

Unfortunately it's rather easy to mistype it as ctrl shift c, which --as you might have guessed-- is "call everyone".

Amazing.

Try the "Paste as plain text" tool in PowerToys - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/advanced....

PowerPoint

Paste with source formatting or theme, I can't recall the exact name right now, rules. It means being able to mooch slides from any file and use them with no real fuss.

An alternative is to turn the slide into a bitmap.

I get that there are a few cases where it's useful. Make those require "ALT-SHIFT' or whatever. Make normal paste insert just the text.

Yep. I agree! Sorry, it just popped out.

Your primary point is solid. Seconded.

I’ve wondered about it for years; why is the ‘paste’ command not ‘paste without style’ by default? A system level option to change this would be a vast improvement.

I’ve seen all sorts of gross workarounds. The URL bar is my go to these days, mainly because that works on mobile.

I think you are in good company. I’ve used excel extensively, and I’ve never even conceived of that number of fonts specifically being needed. Let alone breaking excel on fonts.

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