Microsoft has added two new utilities to the open-source PowerToys toolset to assist Windows customers paste textual content with out formatting and make shifting the mouse throughout a number of screens or on ultra-wide displays simpler.
The new PowerToys 0.68 model additionally comes with new GPO insurance policies for replace toast notifications and automated replace downloads.
While you’ll be able to already paste clipboard contents as plain textual content utilizing CTRL+SHIFT+V, this shortcut does not work inside native Windows apps.
As its title implies, the brand new “Paste as Plain Text” software can shortly paste the latest clipboard content material as unformatted textual content into any app.
The software might be toggled on from the PowerToys Settings dialog and is activated utilizing a worldwide keyboard shortcut (the default shortcut is Win+Shift+V).
The concept behind the Paste as Plain Text module comes from a GitHub problem opened two years in the past and is closely impressed by Steve P. Miller’s free PureText tray utility.
Today’s launch additionally bundles a brand new Mouse Jump utility that can be enabled through a devoted pane within the PowerToys Settings.
Mouse Jump can also be activated utilizing a customizable world shortcut (the default is Win+Shift+D).
After hitting the activation shortcut, you will note an summary of your complete desktop as a thumbnail heart on the mouse pointer’s place, permitting you to maneuver the pointer to any a part of the desktop faster by considerably shortening the mouse shifting distance.
“This function could be most helpful for any workstation setup that has an ultrawide monitor, or a number of displays configured in a big display property, however could possibly be used on any setup to maneuver the mouse shortly to particular desktop areas,” Michael Clayton says within the authentic function proposal GitHub problem from January.
“Traditionally, shifting throughout a big display property requires repeated “swiping” of the bodily mouse – shifting it to the sting of its accessible bounds, lifting it and shifting again to the other sure repeatedly till the pointer has moved to the specified location.”
The Microsoft PowerToys toolset was initially a group of tiny freeware utilities developed as facet tasks by Windows builders in the course of the Windows 95 period.
In September 2019, Microsoft determined to revive them and launched the first model of the fashionable PowerToys open-source utility pack, which provides further performance to Windows and quickens numerous duties with out utilizing third-party instruments.
PowerToys is accessible by means of the Microsoft Store or from Microsoft’s PowerToys GitHub web page, the place you too can discover additional information on enhancements, adjustments, and bug fixes included with this launch.