One of my pet peeves while copy pasting is that the formatting gets copied always. Like, if I copy a text which is BOLD and I paste it elsewhere the text is pasted in BOLD. This is really annoying when you copy text from a web page or a document that I did not prepare, so it has completely different formatting. Even Google docs and other web based have transferred this quirk. At least give me an option to disable this stupid annoyance.
MS office and other desktop word processors have the ability to “Paste special” where I can paste only the text without the formatting. Sweet! But I can’t make it the default paste option. Every time I need to paste, I have to select paste special -> Past Unformatted text.
This is not a big deal if I have to do it occasionally, but I happen to do this a lot while writing. So this annoys me. And frankly I don’t see why the special paste operation should be “Paste with formatting”