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I use CTRL+Alt+V to "paste special" all the time. Unfortunately, Evernote has hijacked the functionality, so my shortcut key creates a new note instead of doing what I want.

How can I disable the Evernote shortcut?

Jon Crowell
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    +1 just for letting me know that Ctrl-Alt-V invokes paste special. That will save me time every day. – Wayne Johnston Mar 21 '12 at 00:20
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    Until I stumbled on this post, I was mistakenly under the impression that office 2010 had removed the ctrl-alt-v shortcut. I had not yet put together the use of ctrl-alt-v with these weird fragments of word documents appearing in evernote...thanks. – Brett Jun 05 '13 at 20:56
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    Is there a Mac version of this question? The new version of Evernote (Oct 2020) has recently introduced global hotkeys that are superseding hotkeys in other programs with no obvious way to disable. – Jess Riedel Oct 31 '20 at 17:44
  • See my comment below. Keyboard shortcuts are now editable in Help -> Keyboard shortcuts, or by pressing Ctrl + / – Gigamosh57 Apr 12 '21 at 15:11

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One of two ways:

  1. In Evernote, from the Menu bar Choose Tools then Options then the "Hot Keys" tab, and reassign the operation using Ctrl+Alt+V (typically Paste Clipboard).

  2. Right click the Evernote Clipper icon in your system tray, Options, and "Configure Hotkeys", and the same reassignment done above.

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pottsdl
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Evernote version 5.5.1 is different. There is no "tools" tab on the menubar and you instead must go to Evernote> preferences> shortcuts.

user366114
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    As of 6.5.4, in the Windows Application it is Tools > Options > Shortcut Keys It is still Options > Configure Shortcut Keys ... in the Evernote Clipper in the system tray. Thanks for prompting an update to the question! – pottsdl Dec 01 '17 at 02:04
  • As of 10.4.4, Evernote from the Microsoft Store does not appear to have a way to configure *any* keyboard shortcuts: all I see is Tools > Account Info and Tools > Preferences > Save data at log out. – Chris R. Donnelly Dec 09 '20 at 16:53
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In Evernote 10.8.x and newer, they have moved this menu. Local and global keyboard shortcuts are now editable by going to Help -> Keyboard Shortcuts (or pressing Ctrl + /).

Found in Evernote forums

Gigamosh57
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Evernote Clipper is the app that is hijacking some of your keyboard combinations at a system level.

To stop the clipper (in Windows):

  1. Exit Evernote

  2. In Windows Task Manager kill the Evernote Clipper task that is running

    Now to stop clipper running ever again...

  3. Run regedit and in Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Evernote\Evernote\StartEvernoteClipper set this to 0

    This will stop Clipper starting up when you start Evernote for windows.

  4. Run windows task manager -> Start-up tab -> RMB on Evernote Clipper and set it to disable.

    This is to stop Evernote clipper from starting on windows startup.

This works as of Evernote 6.18.4.8489.

Note: Every time Evernote updates you might want to check that they haven't reset some of these settings and Clipper is not now starting up again.

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This ovrerrided everythign and I can't use my PC like a normal keyboard oriented person. And the lack of any means of contact and supprt is horrible!! Never use it, if you use minimum of ctrl+c ctrl+v keyboard shortcuts for your work. If you do, you'd need to re-assign every key set.

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    Sorry. This is a product complaint, not an answer. I realize that as a new poster here you can't add comments. You may want to post your own question, with a link to this, and see if you can get help. – Charles Kenyon Apr 23 '21 at 17:10