I often find myself copying and pasting. Perhaps from an internal website such as Bugzilla, and when I paste into a word document or e-mail I often find I've brought along some additional text formatting that I didn't want, such as differing fonts and colour.
I used to use Edit->Paste Special->Unformatted Text to avoid this, or if I was in Outlook I might paste it first into the subject box, then copy and paste it into the e-mail.
However, there seems to be a little known keyboard shortcut that can easily strip formatting in most MS applications such as Word and Outlook that does just this job! Ctrl-Space!
As a test, copy the below the paragraph into your nearest app, and try it for yourself.
The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog
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you had me all excited there, Matt. Doesn't seem to work in Word 2007 though :-(
ReplyDeleteThat's strange, as it works for my colleague on 2007. Try CTRL-SHIFT-Z, as that should be an alternative for the same thing.
ReplyDeleteSee the full list for other shortcuts:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938/