paste as text

Paul Thurrott’s July 08, 2026 Thurrott.com attachment page, “cbh-paste-text,” points to a small but consequential Windows 11 Field Guide moment: Clipboard history’s “paste text” behavior, the plain-text escape hatch buried inside Microsoft’s increasingly cloud-aware copy-and-paste system for...

If you still copy and paste one item at a time, you’re doing it the hard way — and Windows 11 quietly gives you a built‑in vault that fixes that: Clipboard history. Enable it once, and you can recall recent copies, pin frequently used snippets, paste without formatting, and even sync selected...