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HOW TO cut & paste just the text in a browser, not the formatting

Typically when I have to paste formatted text within a rich text box of a web app, I paste it into the search box of the browser first to remove the formatting & then paste the un-formatted text in a rich text editor. What a pain!

I learnt from the WebApps StackExchange forum that in Chrome, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the unformatted version of the copied text.

While monkeying around to see if there is any trick to make this work in browsers other than Chrome, I serendipitously discovered that  Ctrl + Shift +C opens Developer Tools in Chrome & triggers the Inspect element hotkey that shows a tooltip for a webpage element that you hover upon.



Also see:
Keyboard shortcuts common to Firefox & IE