I can't believe it's taken Microsoft OneNote so long to add this basic feature - and I might actually use it now

• Microsoft OneNote finally gets option to paste without formatting
• You can use the usual keyboard shortcuts or right click
• Windows, Mac and browser versions all get the update

More than two decades after OneNote first hit the shelves, Microsoft has finally added what we would reasonably expect to be a core feature, saving a lot of unnecessary hassle that users have had to deal with until now.

As of August 2025, OneNote now supports text-only pasting or pasting without formatting – "mismatched fonts, awkward background colors, or unwanted styles" will no longer come over if you don't want them.

Thankfully, you won't need to do anything special to activate the feature, just use the same keyboard shortcuts you already use in other apps to copy the text only: Ctrl+Shift+V (Windows) or Cmd+Shift+V (Mac).