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Let me just repeat the "AutoHotkey" work round, it really is horrible and perhaps might itself be a security hole (if someone knows you are running it) but it does work. What it actually does is to add a new "hot key" into Windows which is activated by ctrl+shift+v, as opposed to ctrl+v. Instead of pasting the clipboard (as ctrl-v does) it actually reads the clipboard contents and then "types" them, exactly as (for example) the on-screen keyboard "types" in response to mouse clicks on the OSK keys.
To get this you download AutoHotkey (link above, there is also a third-party build in the Microsoft Store but read the description carefully before choosing that.) You then install AutoHotKey, go to your "Documents" directory and create a new script (right click/New/AutoHotkey Script). This gives you a new file called "New AutoHotkey Script.ahk", right click on that and select "Edit Script" then paste the magic line from above in at the end:
^+v::Send {Raw}%clipboard%
Save the file and double click it. From this point on ctrl-shift-v is going to laboriously type whatever is in the clipboard into wherever the focus is, hence the security issue; it is very easy to have a lot of stuff on the clipboard such that typing it all in might take a very long time. Try copying this message, which is quite small, then using ctrl-shift-v and ctrl-v to paste it into notepad to see the difference.