Since my MS Word has recently been updated, the keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting formatting have changed to Alt+Ctrl+C and Alt+Ctrl+V, respectively. However, I have become conditioned to using Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V. But now, when I do the latter key combination, it pastes from the clipboard as plain text (without formatting). More @Wikipedia
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