Decius wrote:
When pasting text default to plain text.

When I am pasting text from one window into another window, I almost never want to preserve the font and formatting from the previous window. I'm moving information into a different context. The first context has a particular look and feel. The new context invariably has a different look and feel. I want the information that I'm adding into the new context to fit the overall look and feel for the new context, not the old one. Therefore, text should default to pasting as plain text (or "paste and match style" as Apple calls it). I should not have to click on "Paste Special..." and then choose "unformatted text" from a menu and then click OK, every time I want to paste something. That's too much clicking. The extra clicking should be preserved for the rare case where I do want the formatting preserved. If most users feel differently about this, at least make the default behavior configurable!

Patent the concept now and litigate for profit later, that's what all the big boys do.

In windows world, I open a notepad then Ctrl v,a,x it for the plain conversion. I have a hotkey for notepad, it's almost second nature at this point because I encounter this same situation all the time. Very annoying.

RE: Things I wish Microsoft and Apple would do differently #7432