14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently shipped Windows 10 build 21318 to insiders in the Dev channel, and one of the highlights is an improvement for the clipboard history.
While many people stick with the traditional clipboard, Windows 10 now integrates a much more advanced clipboard manager.
And these days the software giant is trying to polish the experience with the clipboard history, announcing in this latest build that the feature now supports paste as plain text.
“Simply open clipboard history (WIN + V) and click the … button next to any text-based entry in your clipboard history – you will now see a “Paste as plain text” option alongside pin and delete! When you use this action in clipboard history, it pastes the text content of the clipboard without its original formatting (font, color, size etc.), allowing it to match the formatting of the destination document,” the company explains.
For the time being, however, not everybody can try it out, despite being part of the Windows Insider program. Microsoft says it has released the new clipboard update only for a bunch of users in the Dev channel, promising to release it for everybody at a later time.
New Windows 10 feature update in the spring
Microsoft has recently confirmed that a new Windows 10 feature update is coming in the spring, but there’s a chance it won’t include this clipboard history improvement.
Windows 10 21H1 will be mostly focused on under the hood refinements, and Microsoft confirmed it’ll be delivered as a quality update rather than as a whole new feature update.
The release is projected to happen in the first half of the year, and judging from Microsoft’s typical release calendar, we should expect it to show up in April or May this spring.