The loss of "reveal codes" is the greatest tragedy of the fall of Wordperfect. For me there was nothing more satisfying than cleaning up a bunch of empty "bold" blocks that had started to clutter up the text and would cause text to mysteriously embolden if inserted in the wrong place.
In Google Docs a number of times I've had to copy my text out to a temporary notepad to remove formatting and re-paste it in the original doc because for some reason it was starting a numbered list over again at 1 and there was no way to convince it that it's all part of the same list.
I still copy-paste into Notepad to remove formatting. Even that fails on Win10 if you used, eg, non-breaking hyphens ... thought I was going mad; no, just MS Windows doing its thing.
I've returned to MSWord after 15 years, it still seems incapable of doing numbered lists consistently. Would love some 'reveal codes' for that.
In a just world, CTRL-v would paste without formatting, and the more difficult CTRL-SHIFT-v would retain formatting. The vastly more desired (by users, not by product managers) operation should be invoked by the simpler keystroke.
How often do you cut and paste and actually want to bring over someone else’s colors and fonts? 1% of the time? 0.1%?
"paste with formatting" by default is a mistake. the thing you're pasting from and the thing you're pasting to inevitably have different ideas about what formatting is relevant / possible in the given textareas you're copying from / pasting to. it's almost always better to just paste without formatting and then fix formatting (so, the default should have been flipped, but the ship has sailed).
I played around with using hammerspoon to send cmd-shift-v whenever I typed cmd-v but I really needed to make it change depending on which app I was pasting into and that was just past my annoyance threshold.
Isn't it ctrl+alt+v? only seems to work in a few cases, not as a generic. Between OneNote and Word it only works in one direction IIRC, and I can never remember which way. around.
I was just having a get-off-my-lawn moment yesterday with a coworker who was struggling with pasting into a bulleted list in google docs. They had never heard the term "WYSIWYG".
In Google Docs a number of times I've had to copy my text out to a temporary notepad to remove formatting and re-paste it in the original doc because for some reason it was starting a numbered list over again at 1 and there was no way to convince it that it's all part of the same list.