10.24.06
Make Ctrl-V act like “Paste Special” — Windows only
This is quite a handy little freeware tool: PureText. Once you install it, you specify the hotkey that will paste text while stripping it of formatting. The default, which works well, is Windows-V.
Then, when you paste text by pressing Windows-V (instead of Ctrl-V), the action is exactly as if you had pasted the text into Notepad, then copied it from Notepad, then pasted it in with Ctrl-V—i.e., it strips formatting from the text so the text uses the default formatting of where you’re pasting it. Alas, it strips hyperlinks (of course).
Unobtrusive and does the job. (Some restrictions may apply—read at the link for more info.)
