Sometimes, when I copy over text from an external source, it picks up styles from the original document like background colors, font-sizes, font colors, etc.
Is there a use case where people want to include rich text formatting when pasting into fields like paragraph, headline, link, or span?
The function of CSS is to specify these styles and it seems like rich text formats overrides CSS.
i don’t know if this will works, but you might want to try
ctrl + shift + v
Yes, I know that shift-ctrl-v will paste without rich text (i.e. plain text).
In my opinion, when pasting into BSS fields, most people will want to paste as plain text because we have CSS to format the text as needed.
I’m wondering whether there’s a large population that want or need rich text formatting. If not, perhaps the default paste action should be to paste as plain text.
Actually, I would prefer if this were how it worked.
Hi, I too would prefer the pasted option to add unformatted text.
Count me in too 
I’d like for this to be the default also
I’m also in favor of pasting plain text.
Sometimes, only after changing the display size, you can see that the text has been formatted 
Not sure if this would address your needs. Personally, I find it very helpful.
with this you can copy as plain text and use Ctrl-v to paste it
problem of making it as default option is it will caught most people off guard.
bss is not the only program on the planet.
ctrl+shift+v is general shortcut on most desktop software for paste as plain text.
imagine opening multiple software at the same time with this general shortcut then boom bss…
my sugestion is for dev team to add setting in option to set how default paste shortcut ctrl+v behave, so one can opt in to this different than standard behaviour…
I like this solution. Just have a menu option for how ctrl-v behaves.
Usually will right click to paste as plain text or prepare everything in notepad.
If there is a simple notes pane will be most welcome.
Yes I like the opinions here too.
I know the shortcuts but I’m constantly hitting Ctrl Z to fix the Ctrl V I just did.
Maybe the devs can leave the keyboard shortcuts in place and just have a menu option somewhere to “paste all text as unformatted.” I suppose an argument can be made that it saves time when you need to paste formatted text from one part of a page to another part, but the vast majority of text I paste comes from external sources (Word docs, the internet, PDFs) and it almost always need to be “stripped” of formatting. As a developer, I always want to start with 100% clean HTML, and then style it as I desire.
To me, this just seems like the proper way to build websites.
Since this idea continues on, maybe a good option would be to add an additional right click within the Overview Panel for appropriate Elements.
Convert to Plain Text
Maybe it wasn’t clear what I was replying to, but we don’t plan to implement changes to pasting nor an option to switch it to plain text.
A few questions about this:
Hi @Martin,
Yes understood, I’m not in need of the discussed outcome from either thread as I handle it through external apps. I just transferred your comment into this thread from the other as the discussion continued on here. 
As I thought about each discussion, the current Clear Formatting button works with selected text, my thought for the above suggestion would be for clearing the formatting for the entire text of an element. Thats all it would do.
As that seems to be what is being expressed. Again I don’t require it and understood your comment both there and now here, sorry for any confusion. 