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

Posted on:  11/01/2022
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 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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Chapters:

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

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