In my job (and sometimes at home) I often need to copy and paste sections of text or data between different documents or applications. If I use the normal paste command the copied data are inserted using the same formatting as in the original document, which nine time out of ten differs from that in the receiving document. I then have to reformat my document. I know that I can use Edit > Paste > Special... or use a custom shortcut to paste without formatting, but it's a longer route and easy to forget.

There are also several non-Office applications that will take formatted pasted text, and they don't appear to have a Paste > Special... command. In such cases I often have to paste the copied item into a program that doesn't allow formatting (like Notepad) then copy/paste it into the other application. I'd find it easier if the default for the paste command were without formatting. I'd be interested to learn if others have the same issues, although I realise this blog, with its minuscule readership, is not the best place to ask for the opinions of the world at large.

The doors close automatically. If no-one has called the lift from a particular floor they will close swiftly. If someone has pressed for a lift, the doors stay open slightly longer to give the person time to get on. There are four lifts in the area I use and it's not always possible to tell which lift will be stopping.

I've several times walked towards a lift, only for the doors to be closed before I could enter. Very often the doors have started to close as I enter, and I spot someone standing there with their finger on the "close" button. Why do these people bother? They save perhaps ten seconds maximum. Are they so keen to get back to work?

This is really nitpicking, but one thing that tends to annoy me happens when I tune the TV to catch the start of a particular programme; let's call it "Programme X". The continuity announcer then says something like "Next up, Programme Y", to which my immediate reaction is "Huh?". The announcer then goes on to say "But, before that, Programme X". I tend to confuse easily and that gets me every time. There's one channel that puts up notices on the screen "Next: Program Y", and "Later: Program Z". They'll then start showing Program X.

A similar annoyance is when the announcer says, for instance, "Now, Programme X" followed by several minutes of commercials. The announcer means "After you've sat through us trying to sell you things, we'll start Programme X", and should reserve using "Now" for the immediate future, not for in four or five minutes' time.

• "OH MY GOD!" (or, possibly worse and spelled out as an initialism,"OMG!"): this seems to be used by some (mainly teen-aged girls) to introduce every sentence regardless of content;
• "As/like I was saying...": used repeatedly and when this is the first time the matter has been mentioned;
• "Like": as used in I was, like, 'No way!', and she was, like, 'Way!';
• "Know what I mean?" repeated endlessly during a conversation.

• rudely carry on speaking, ignoring other people,  while they are being served in a shop, or are buying a train ticket, say;
• walk about while chatting or texting, stopping suddenly every now and then without warning, then look annoyed when someone bumps into them;
• talk at the top of their voice, usually saying some inanity about "I'll be home at the usual time".