# Paste as plain text

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/paste-as-plain-text/1594>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/paste-as-plain-text/1594 "2020-07-30T11:00:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Peter](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/paste-as-plain-text/1594/1 "2020-07-30T11:00:04Z")

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The new update to Anki (v2.1.29) keeps the text format when copying and pasting into fields when creating new notes. Can you add a feature ‘Paste as plain text’ so all text formatting is removed?

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**Author:** ![mmdj2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/mmdj2/32/124_2.png) [@mmdj2](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/mmdj2)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/paste-as-plain-text/1594/2 "2020-07-30T11:10:00Z")

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you can use ctrl+shift+V to do that.  
if you want ctrl+V to remove formatting, you can go to `Tools -> Preferences` and enable `Paste without shift key strips formatting`

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Peter](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/paste-as-plain-text/1594/3 "2020-07-30T18:38:32Z")

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thanks 👍