Still Broken: Ctrl + Shift + V Doesn’t Work in Google Sheets for Paste Special

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This is still and issue, on mac too, any progress on fixing it?

In Google Sheets, I am unable to “Paste Special” (i.e. paste without formatting) by using the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V.

There are a couple caveats to this – for when Ctrl + Shift + V will work:

It will paste special if my cursor is actually inside the cell (i.e. by double clicking or pressing F2).
It will paste special if the I copied other cells from within that spreadsheet.
So, basically, the issue is when I copy data from outside the spreadsheet. So let’s say I copy “25” from any other source (e.g. Email client, Word Document, notepad, whatever), then I go into my Google Sheet and press Ctrl + Shift + V while the destination cell is highlighted, nothing will happen.

It works fine in chrome. In Brave, I made sure there’s no extension shortcuts mapped to the Ctrl + Shift + V that might be overriding it. I also tried in incognito with no extensions on.

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Hi @jaredburger

Does it occur in other browsers? Like Firefox? or Edge?

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Thanks for asking. Works fine in Chrome and Firefox.

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Have the exact same issue.
You copy some text from wherever - open Google Sheets - try to do ctrl+shift+v and nothing.
You copy some text from the Spreadsheet, do a ctrl+shift+v works great.
You then go to another tab, copy some text, do a ctrl+shift+v on google sheets and what the clipboard is storing is the value for that tab.

Its as though:
ctrl+v - shared clipboard
ctrl+shift+v - per tab clipboard

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I could replicate the same clipboard issues in Firefox and Edge, not a Brave specific issue.

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