![]() ![]() ![]() It pops up a small menu of paste styles: double-click on Unformatted Text and you’re done. In OpenOffice (and its derivatives: NeoOffice, LibreOffice, etc.) this is on the Edit menu as Paste Special…, but you can use the shortcut Shift-Ctrl-V (or Apple-Ctrl-V on a Mac) to invoke it. So instead, use paste-without-formatting. This is a proper pain if, to pick a purely hypothetical example, you’re putting together a book based on your own blog-posts. I imagine this is the cause of most of the horrible Font Soup you see in too many MS-Word documents. That usually means that you get fonts you didn’t want, that are inconsistent with the rest of the document. If you copy (Ctrl-C) from a web-page, or a Word/OpenOffice document, or any other source that has formatting, then when you paste the copied material into a document that supports formatting (such as another Word/OpenOffice document or a WordPress post), the formatting - or at least, a broken attempt at it - will be pasted in. This is the single most useful keyboard shortcut I’ve ever found, but it seems no-one knows about it at least, if they do, they didn’t tell me at any point in the first 33 years of my computer career. ![]()
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