Setting Paste and Match Style as default

Douglas Hill •

by Thaweesak Suksuwan

An old tip, but a good one. Use the Keyboard System Preferences pane to set ⌘-V to “Paste and Match Style” or similar commands. I’ve just set it up for “Paste With Current Style” in OmniOutliner.

The Mac OS X Keyboard System Preferences pane, with ‘Application Shortcuts’ selected on the left

The sheet for adding a custom keyboard shortcut, set up to use command-V for ‘Paste With Current Style’ in OmniOutliner

OmniOutliner’s Edit menu, showing how the ‘Paste With Current Style’ command now has the keyboard shortcut command-V