Microsoft Excel

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

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 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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Chapters:

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

Delete Blank Columns in Excel: 3 Easy Ways

Blank columns break sorting, filtering, and PivotTables. Remove them with Go To Special, a COUNTA helper row, or Power Query's Column quality view.

Copilot in PowerPoint: Explain vs. Review This Presentation

Copilot in PowerPoint now has two skills with nearly identical names that do very different jobs: Explain this presentation and Review this presentation. One helps you understand a deck someone else made. The other helps you improve a deck you made yourself. If you train people on Copilot, expect questions

Redesign Slides with Copilot's Visualize This Slide Skill in PowerPoint

Use the Visualize this slide skill in Copilot for PowerPoint to turn text-heavy slides into visual layouts. Three examples: bullets, a six-step process, and a timeline.

Copilot Skills in PowerPoint - Live Stream on October 20, 2026

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