Paste without Formatting (Cmd+Shift+V)
 Max Chionh
    
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    Hi Everyone,
This functionality has been shipped in June-2021 version of Illustrator.
The option "Paste without Formatting (Alt+Ctrl+V)’ has been added to the ‘Edit’ Menu.
Thanks for your feedback.
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      Kalvis Kalsers commented I find out that paste text without formating in Illustrator works with Ctrl+Alt+V 
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       Levi Johnson
    
 commented Levi Johnson
    
 commentedAdobe products are so broken. 
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       Jeremy
    
 commented Jeremy
    
 commented--> without formatting, not with formatting. Please correct the title. 
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       Hans-Jürgen Dyhr
    
 commented Hans-Jürgen Dyhr
    
 commentedThe title of this topic seems to be wrong. IMHO cmd+Shift+V means: Paste withOUT Formatting (as in InDesign). 
 Maybe a moderator can change this?
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      Christo Boshoff commented Notepad... Why? Because Illustrator can't. This is my life. It shouldn't be, but it is... 
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       Aleks
    
 commented Aleks
    
 commentedYes, please. It is very annoying not to have that basic feature! 
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       Jeremy
    
 commented Jeremy
    
 commentedPlease add a way to paste text from the clipboard without any formatting. Currently, I have to paste the text into a text editor to remove formatting and then copy/paste back into Illustrator. In other programs, this command is typically CMD-SHIFT-V, it would be nice if the same command could be used in AI for this functionality. 
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       Brandon DeWeese
    
 commented Brandon DeWeese
    
 commentedHow does this not already exist? 
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       Brendan Goodenough
    
 commented Brendan Goodenough
    
 commentedBasically, because illustrator is ****! 
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       Christie
    
 commented Christie
    
 commentedGraphic designer updating labels in AI to new branding, such a pain to update the font. Please add to next update 
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       Clinton Petrino
    
 commented Clinton Petrino
    
 commentedI'm going to add another designer name to this issue. If I'm missing something PLEASE let me know. This is an issue almost every time I work in Illustrator. 
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       Derek
    
 commented Derek
    
 commentedThis is one of many features that needs to be added to Illustrator. It's beyond me that this is still not an option. Another option should be to apply the styling of one paragraph to other paragraphs. I have a dozen paragraphs of text on a label design. The client requested a few styling changes. Having to manually update each paragraph is a huge time waster. Why not simply offer a "paste and match style" option as well as a "apply paragraph styling to all paragraphs" option? Simple. Yet I'm not holding my breath since Adobe never listens to it's customers or fixes blatant bugs. I guess when you have a monopoly in the professional design industry, customer satisfaction no longer matters. 
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedWhy isn't there a "Paste Without Formatting Option in Illustrator? You need to put that in the next update! 
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       Steve
    
 commented Steve
    
 commentedmiss this every day. Please add this! 
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       Patrick Gaffney
    
 commented Patrick Gaffney
    
 commentedThis needs to be added on the next update without question. Which every way it is implemented, menu item (edit paste and match style) control (right click) function, custom functionality or otherwise. I should be able to have copy, raw copy with no formatting in my file, and be able to paste it into another text box with the ability to retain the destination formatting. Practically every other program has this type of functionality, even Powerpoint, Word, and several others. Thank you for your help in resolving this oversight. I have lived with this for decades and have finally come to the point in my career where I can no longer work in Illustrator without this type of functionality. For example, in InDesign, this is accomplished by "paste in place" which isn't perfect. In my email program, the work around is "command, option, shift, V" which retains the destination formatting. There has to be a way to implement this into Illustrator. Thanks for your help. Please contact me if anyone on your team would like to discuss this issue. 
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       Ksprack
    
 commented Ksprack
    
 commentedI'm honestly shocked that this isn't a thing already.... You can do this in XD etc.. can we get this moved up to a priority! :) 
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedNearly all programs can do that, Indesign can do that, why not Illustrator? Usecase: 
 I copy withing Illustrator
 I paste within Illustrator
 I do not want the old formatting
 I now have to take a deroute e. g. via textfile to get unformatted text (paste, select, copy)
 Then I can pastePlease add this very basic functionality as it exists in Indesign already since a long time. 
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedThis hasn't been done yet?! 
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      William Scalia commented This is pretty basic. 
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       J
    
 commented J
    
 commentedFor god's sake, do this already! Such a PITA 
 
          
