Using Ctrl+Shift+V to paste text without the underlying formatting

It’s so frustrating when you do Ctrl+C to copy some text, and when you paste it into something like an email, it copies over all the text formatting too. So you head over to Notepad to paste it there (to lose the formatting), and then you copy and paste it into something like Outlook or Teams to get just the text. Today I learned that you can use Ctrl+Shift+V (or Option+Shift+Command+V on a Mac) to paste over content without formatting! Here’s how that works…

Mirror My Video feature in Microsoft Teams

When you’re using your camera in a Microsoft Teams meeting, you may end up with a “mirroring” effect on your screen. Everyone viewing your video sees things correctly, but you see everything backwards… like looking in a mirror. Teams has a feature to correct that if necessary. Here’s how that works…