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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by RubberbandSoul on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:09AM (#28405223)
I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies:

Copy text, data, etc from wherever

Paste it into Notepad

Copy it again

Paste it where you want it and then apply any formatting according to the destination app's formatting rules

Not a great workaround but at least it works.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by inetknght on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:38PM (#28407095)
> I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies

I also do that. I 100% attribute that to browsers and people who want to copy/paste HTML and have it all colorized and formatted in the destination app.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by klyrs on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:36AM (#28405588)
FWIW, this is necessary in linux and android too.
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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by tragomaskhalos on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:28AM (#28405497)
Ah yes - the "sheepdip" as we call it
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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by toto444 on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:17AM (#28405343)
I used to do that and then I learnt about Crt + Shift + v. That pastes the text without any formatting.
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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by TorKlingberg on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:07PM (#28406026)
Ctrl+Shift+V is great, when it works. Which it doesn't annoyingly often, such as Atlassian's Confluence wiki. So I paste and re-copy things in the URL bar all the time. Ctrl + L V A X
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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by jon_richards on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:36AM (#28405584)
That used to work in Google sheets, but now it only pastes the last thing copied from Google sheets. Really frustrating.
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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by orangepurple on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:24AM (#28405446)
In Windows programs another shortcut for unformatted text is Control Alt V where Control Shift V does not work

https://superuser.com/questions/407113/shortcut-in-word-or-e...

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by InitialLastName on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:52AM (#28405785)
That's broken in Outlook 2108. Now they want you to paste (CTRL+V) and then hold CTRL and click on/navigate to the obscure icon for the paste variant you want.
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