Pasting plain textual content in Windows isn’t as simple as in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Hitting Ctrl + Shift + V to dump out a clear copy of your clipboard isn’t universally supported, so that you’ll usually wind up with HTML hyperlinks and formatting gunking up your pasted textual content, which that you must manually take away. But that’ll ultimately change if you happen to’ve bought Microsoft’s awesome PowerToys tool put in: As reported by Neowin final week, a brand new function referred to as “PastePlain” has proven up on Github as a part of the venture. 

Based on PowerToy’s present Text Extractor utility, it ought to work simply as described. Any formatting—daring, font dimension, highlights, and many others.—will get stripped if you paste textual content utilizing a keyboard shortcut. The default shall be Ctrl + Win + V, however you’ll be capable of customise the shortcut, too. A particular launch date hasn’t but been specified but.

As all of us wait, you may play with other PowerToys if you happen to aren’t already conversant in the software. The open-source venture means that you can supercharge your Windows expertise with further options and customizations. Our private favorites embrace extra choices for snapped home windows, fast batch renaming of information,and fast batch resizing of photos, however you need to try all of the highlights.

No lie, although—as soon as PastePlain releases, that one’s going straight to the highest of the record. The routine of “copy, paste into Notepad, copy again, paste into the actual program we’re using” could be very previous its retirement date.