Advanced Paste doesn't work on New Outlook

[racdamico]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.85.0

Installation method

WinGet

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

Advanced Paste

Steps to reproduce

I'm using PowerToys 0.85.0 and when I try to use the advanced paste with the shortcuts (ctrl+win+alt+v) inside the New Outlook it doesn't paste and activates the letter for the shortcuts menu.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Copy without any format

❌ Actual Behavior

Activates the New Outlook menu letters.
In another software, such as Word, it doesn't happen.

Other Software

You have Microsoft Outlook version 1.2024.925.200 (Production).

The client version is 20240920004.12.

WebView2 version is 129.0.2792.65.

[jaimecbernardo]

Hmmm, I guess it's because Outlook first steals focus from the Window. I guess some combination of the modifiers ctrl, alt and/or shift is making it lose focus. Does using a different shortcut that doesn't trigger Outlook to lose focus from a textbox helps with this? /needinfo

[racdamico]

Yes, changing to, i.e., ctrl+win+v worked fine.

[jaimecbernardo]

Unfortunately we can't really do much if an app removes focus from the textbox you're trying to paste to 🤷 Thanks for the feedback.

[ukanuk]

That's frustrating that the Microsoft PowerToys team "can't really do much" when it's the Microsoft Outlook team causing issues.

I guess if this shortcut were built into full regular Windows, then gradually every application would start to respect it. But as it is, there is no top-down guidance on an appropriate universal shortcut for "paste as plain text", and it's confusing enough that Microsoft itself can't be consistent across its own applications.