Other applications might have their own solutions or allow you to use some sort of outside program or extension to achieve similar results. And in Office, you can click on the little Paste Options button that appears next to the pasted text and hit Match Destination Formatting (which will still keep bold and italics) or Keep Text Only-and you can set one of those as the default way to paste. But, for example, in Chrome and Firefox, you can use Control + Shift + V. On a PC, there’s not a catch-all shortcut that’ll work across every application. Technically, you can also go to Edit and scroll down to Paste and Match Formatting or Paste and Match Style, but who wants to go back to that much mouse clicking? It’s a lot of keys at once, but it’ll quickly become second nature. Instead of Command + V, hit Command + Option + Shift + V. Let’s start with Macs, because it’s easier. Read: You won’t have to then change the font, size, color, spacing, or anything else you’ve already set for the rest of the text. That way, it integrates seamlessly into whatever it is you’re working on. Well if you’ve already mastered the basics, the next step on that road to laziness, I mean efficiency, is pasting text to match the formatting of its destination. And makes me want to swoop in like Captain Keyboard with this amazing timesaving tidbit: “Did you know you don’t have to click anything? Let me show you!”

Hitting Command + C has become such an ingrained habit that now when I notice anyone doing otherwise it really throws me off.

But I’d venture to say that keyboard shortcuts are life changing-and all that mouse work is really unnecessary. Okay, you probably don’t, and I’d be lying if I said I did. Remember the first time you realized you didn’t have to click on the Edit dropdown on your computer and select Copy or Cut and then go back to the Edit dropdown again and then scroll down to Paste just to put some text from one place into another spot?

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