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Note that this menu item doesn’t appear in all browsers “Paste without formatting” is missing in Docs within Safari, for example, but its shortcut, Option-Shift-Command-V, still works and does the same thing. This takes the text that’s in your clipboard and pastes only the plain text without any formatting.
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One solution to this is to use the Paste without formatting option, found in the Edit menu in Google Docs, or by using the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-V (or Control-Shift-V for other operating systems). In most cases, however, you probably want to avoid this and keep things uniform. There may be some cases where you want to preserve the original source formatting, and you don’t care about having inconsistent fonts, sizes, and styles in your document. This means that the pasted text won’t match your document’s default font formatting, nor will it match the formatting of other pasted text blocks if they’re from different sources. Now, in many cases, the text you pasted will have its original source formatting. For the copy and paste actions, you can use either keyboard shortcuts (Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste in macOS). This can be from Apple Mail, a webpage, or pretty much any application. To get started, open or create a new document in Google Docs and paste in some text from an outside source.