Learn the Windows keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy, paste, and undo, plus a few extra tips for pasting without formatting and fixing shortcuts that stop working.

We've been using copy-and-paste shortcuts to move text between applications for years. And products like Microsoft's Word and other 365 productivity apps have annoyed us for just as long when copying ...

Microsoft is working on a new PowerToys module dubbed "PastePlain." As the name implies, the utility will let you strip any styling and paste the copied text plain and unformatted. Microsoft continues ...

Microsoft's open-source PowerToys tool is a great way to customize your Windows experience. It has options to optimize app windows for big monitors, preview new image types in File Explorer, and more.

I posted this in the software thread but I realize now this is probably a Windows question...<P>How do you copy/paste plain text only and not rich text? I always have to use "Paste Special" because ...

I find it extremely annoying how when I copy/paste in Office (or most Windows apps for that matter), the paste takes the source font properties instead of using the ones from the document you're ...

Microsoft has added two new utilities to the open-source PowerToys toolset to help Windows users paste text without formatting and make moving the mouse across multiple screens or on ultra-wide ...

It confounds me why this took so long, but Microsoft is at last making it easier to paste plain text with a keyboard shortcut; support for this is now available to Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta ...

It’s not often that we get innovation in something as basic as copy and paste. But in a new update to Windows 11, copying and pasting is getting supercharged with AI — and it doesn’t even require a ...

Microsoft OneNote now supports a shortcut that has been around on Windows and in other Microsoft apps for ages. Within the note-taking app, you can now press Ctrl + Shift + V to paste text only if you ...