Change combination Opt+Shift+Cmd+V -- Paste text without any formatting

You can create your own shortcut: Create keyboard shortcuts for apps on Mac - Apple Support

Make one for All Applications and pick a combination that is otherwise not used anywhere else (or one that you don't use in other apps). Built-in shortcuts can sometimes not be used.

Joan_14 wrote:

Hi,

after searching a while I found that the combination Opt+Shift+Cmd+V does a kind of "Past text without any formatting". I've used this feature many many times in other systems (Windows, Linux), but for some reason in MacOS it is not that important, and someone decided to assign it to one of the most cumbersome keyboard combinations (4 keys, really? was this necessary?).

Please, how can I change this combination to something more easy like Shift+Cmd+V or Opt+Cmd+V?

thanks

NOTE: there is an old discussion on this issue.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251185367?login=true

It is easy to Command C and Command V to a plain txt file this will strip out all formatting.

I always have an open scratch.txt file open for this purpose

or use the key short cut

TextEdit User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

Just to make sure: did you type the exact text of the menu.

In English, that would be

Past and Match Style

For the record, I tried this and it worked with Command-Control-V

WAIT!!!!

I have to retract my previous post. Shortcuts created in System Preferences DO WORK in Word.

Looking back at your screenshots:

1) You seem to be using a popup menu from a window toolbar, rather than the Menu Bar

2) This is what I see in the menu bar when Word is set to German:

The command is

Einfügen und an Formatierung anpassen

and also:

The command-control-V shortcut is assigned to "Inhalte einfügen..." so before you can reassign it, choose a different shortcut for this one.

In the end, I can say that IT WORKS!

I had tried control option V, and that did not work I tried command shift V and it did work and interestingly that is the shortcut in safari. It did also work in Pages, but that’s about as far as i tested

Paste-> isn’t anywhere in the command.

It’s just “Paste and Match Style.”

There isn’t a submenu, so you don’t need the -> formulation. You generally do not need it for submenu commands, either.

What Barney said.

It seems that you are not writing the exact text of the menu and that is probably why it is not working.

To clarify this once and for all, you could post here two screenshots:

a) showing the relevant menu in one application-for example, Mail, or Safari. This is relevant given that your system is in German, and mine (and others) are in English.

b) showing the relevant part of System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->App Shortcuts

If we are right the two may not match exactly-perhaps, as Barney suggested, because you are putting in the intermediate menu text, and should only use the submenu text.

As Barney said, Word does not use the system way of providing user chosen shortcuts, so this won’t work. Probably the same thing happens with the other MS applications.

I don’t know if Word provides any way to customize keyboard shortcuts.

It is up to you, but I had just finally showed that it does work...

Unless they have changed things, Microsoft does not use the standard menu system, so shortcuts you create in System Preferences won’t work in any of the Office apps.