OneNote lastly will get a well-liked keyboard shortcut that was lacking

Microsoft OneNote has been probably the most fashionable note-taking apps for a few years now, but it surely’s been lacking one essential quality-of-life function—a function that, in accordance with Microsoft, was “extremely requested by many.” Thankfully, it’s lastly right here!

Usually, whenever you paste content material into OneNote, it retains the entire formatting that it had from wherever you copied it from, whether or not that was a Phrase doc, an internet web page, an e-mail, a Discord message, and many others. Typically, it’s extra handy to stick solely the textual content with the entire formatting (daring, italics, underlines, hyperlinks, bullet factors, and many others.) stripped out.

Introduced in yesterday’s Microsoft 365 Insider weblog publish, OneNote is now in a position to “paste textual content solely” (often known as “paste with none formatting”) utilizing the Ctrl + Shift + V keyboard shortcut (or the Cmd + Shift + V keyboard shortcut on Macs).

Beforehand, OneNote may already “paste textual content solely” by both right-clicking and choosing the Maintain Textual content Solely choice or by altering the app’s Default Paste Choice setting to Maintain Textual content Solely. This replace provides the keyboard shortcut, which is identical shortcut you need to use to “paste textual content solely” in different Microsoft 365 apps.

The brand new keyboard shortcut is already rolling out on the newest OneNote variations for Home windows, macOS, and the online. In case you don’t see it, wait a bit longer because the rollout could not have hit your system but.