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We really need "Paste as plain text" in the Teams desktop client

Please add a "Paste as plain text" option to the right-click menu in all text areas in the Teams desktop client that accept formatted text.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why is this still an issue?
    Why is MS insisting on making our lives miserable. That's such a simple thing that so many people ask for!

  • Fred commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I Hate that I always need a notepad window open just to clear the formatted text i want to paste into teams and other windows apps.

  • Chris Conley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update on this? Apparently CTRL-SHIFT-V used to do this, but was re-assigned in a later release. Right-click "Paste as plain text" like other Office apps is probably the ideal way to do this, though a keyboard shortcut is needed for accessibility as well.

  • Neville Scheevel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Nearly every application on the planet features "right-click > paste as plain text" How has this not been implemented in the desktop client yet ?!?

  • Andre Pinheiro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature was requested already and marked as complete... in what world is a feature like this implemented as a keyboard shortcut (with no documentation for users to know about it) marked complete? It seems you don't even use the product.

  • DavidH commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, this is killing me!

    When i highlight a line of text from Microsoft Word, which has been formatted with a heading style - Right Mouse [Menu] Button -> Paste always eliminates the heading numbers with the heading names.

    For example:
    Teams: 1 Important Firmware commands:
    needed: 3.7.2 Important Firmware commands:

    This makes is very difficult to deal with support calls, referring back to an original document which contains the information the people need.

  • Peter Braun commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There's indeed no right-click paste as plain text option, but try the keyboard shortcut shift+ctrl+v instead as a workaround.

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