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Remove automatic link formatting when pasting email addresses and links

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
December 10, 2021
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i know this has been posted before, but Figma really needs to address this issue. pasting an email address should not just format the existing text as a link with the new text as a destination. when creating prototypes with lots of dummy accounts, or even with real data, copying and pasting lots of emails becomes the hardest part of my day, and there are no key shortcuts either. i have to copy, then right click, paste to replace. or “copy as text.” it’s obnoxious, and frankly i don’t think anyone using Figma has ever needed a functional email link for a prototype, it’s not like we’re creating live products where someone might actually click the email link to send an email.

please fix this Figma, it’s infuriating and breaks the flow of creating prototypes. When basically every prototype i create for work requires a list of users and their contact information, it becomes a daily problem which destroys efficiency. at the very least, allow us to paste them without formatting using cmd+shift+V or something.

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Kootoo_Digital

+1(0000) for me too. This is honestly driving me insane guys. Please just give us an option to paste without formatting, or perhaps stick it in the preferences to turn off hyperlinks on paste? They’re not necessary.

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Marie_Siljan

1 on this! Most annoying thing rn

k-hidaka

New Member

+1
automatic email links make me frustrated so much. hope this will be able to turn off.

Oleh_Shydlovskyi

New Participant

+1, such a frustrating thing

Harun_Alikadic1

New Participant

So frustrating, yet so un-useful, in majority of cases

Josh_EveringhamAuthor

New Participant

Glad to see this catching attention. Since we Figma users are creating prototypes, and not functional web experiences, it seems that text should by default remain unformatted as far as links go, with options to add this functionality as needed. i have never once needed any of my links, emails, etc to be clickable to a real site or to send a real email. i have however, spent hours and hours of cumulative time trying to get a datatable with users and their imaginary contact information to update the fake email address’ text and NOT the hyperlink destination. this seems like it ought to be an easy enough fix. PLEASE don’t force us to undo the effects of a feature that nobody actually needs.

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_saber

We are living in July 2023 and the so called best UI design app in world doesn’t have a simple “Paste as a plain text”. What a shame really! What a shame!

Irony is the Figma staff like @dvaliao think all of their users are the community that come and participate on stupid feature request forums. No I am one of the silent majority and I am telling you this thing is driving everyone crazy! Just come out of your tiny feature request caves and do random in person surveys and user interviews!

Even Google Chrome has the “Paste as a plain text” feature and this topic on Figma should still be open! I can’t really believe this and then they say why we loved Adobe XD!

Anyway, for the moment this is a solution everyone:

If you are on Windows there’s a free tool called PureText that you can grab from the Microsoft store. Just install it and whenever you wanted to paste the text without links to the Figma, user the shortcut key: Win+V

Do this and forget about arguing with Figma staff about this! Let them enjoy their feature requests toys!

Josh_EveringhamAuthor

New Participant

I agree this is horribly frustrating, but i don’t blame @dvaliao for prioritizing requests as they come in and as they receive attention. at the time she replied, this was just a small complaint, but this has REALLY taken off recently. I posted well over a year ago, and there was little traction, but now i get replies every other day in Figma, showing that this is really becomming a frustrating issue for us. keep in mind that people like @dvaliao are customer service representatives and not responsible for singlehandedly fixing our woes. Figma support has always been kind and is doing their best!

that being said, @dvaliao with the uptick in responses to this, is there any update regarding where this fits in the bugfix timeline? this is still an issue i encounter near daily, and it’s been well over a year since it was originally brought to Figma’s attention. Has there been any movement?