Microsoft Teams “Chat With Self”

Ok… I know when most people hear about this, they’re like “why do I want to talk to myself?!?”. However, I think Microsoft’s Teams Chat With Self feature is pretty cool and gives you a different way to make quick notes to yourself. Here’s what it looks like…

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…