Microsoft Excel

CTRL + Shift + V to Paste Plain Text in Excel: New Feature Coming Soon

Chris Menard

31 Oct 2022 — 1 min read

Have you ever copied from a website and tried to paste it into Excel? It isn't a pretty picture. Excel has a new keyboard shortcut coming out soon. Using CTRL + SHIFT + V will paste plain text.

Paste with Ctrl + V

Paste with Ctrl + V

Paste Values with CTRL + SHIFT + V

Paste Values with CTRL + SHIFT + V

The current workaround is to use paste and match destination format. With the keyboard now, it is ALT + H + V + M. Office Insiders have this. It came out in October 2022. Soon, all M365

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CTRL + SHIFT + V to Paste Plain Text in Excel - New feature coming soon -

Chapters:

- 0:00 Intro - 0:12 Copy from website - 0:55 Paste - Match Destination Format - 1:25 CTRL + SHIFT + V

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