Facebook Plunges Again
Tumblr 101: Tips And Tricks To Get Started
PureText lets you copy formatted text and paste it back as plain text
Weighing in at a massive 13 kilobytes, PureText is a classic freeware utility; it's tiny, portable (single file), straightforward, does one thing, and it does it well. It lets you copy rich text from a Web page, Word document, or any other source and paste it, clean and devoid of any formatting. It also makes a cute "bong!" sound when it does its job, but you can switch that off.
I can't begin to count the number of times when I wanted to paste a snippet from a Web page into an email, and the formatting completely screwed the rest of my email. You know, it changes the font, and then you have to copy the beginning of the email again, paste it after the Web page snippet, and edit over it (so that the formatting matches the beginning of the email); the whole thing gets pretty messy.
With PureText, just hit Win-V, and you're done. It's really handy!
Comments
11
Subscribe to commentstelecommattJul 26th 2010 1:21PM
Aside from the 'Bong', doesn't MS Notepad do the exact same thing?
RichardJul 26th 2010 1:31PM
Try using Notepad and count the number of steps!
PureText has only 2, Ctrl-C and Win-V.
stinlen56Jul 26th 2010 1:23PM
I thought you used autohotkey. I never knew I needed the #+down for minimize until you pointed out the exception. I've since added it to my ahk startup script. My startup script also contains a quick snippet to allow #v to paste plaintext, and I don't lose the formatted junk that is already on the clipboard.
I had to add plenty of sleeps because my clipboard was getting overwritten, but you get the general idea.
#v::
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll
Sleep 250
clipboard = %clipboard%
Send, ^v
Sleep 250
Clipboard := ClipSaved
Sleep 250
ClipSaved =
Return
(hopefully the above came out ok)
damian_piccoloJul 26th 2010 2:23PM
notepad anybody?
Ryan BruceJul 26th 2010 1:50PM
I'll give this a shot and see if I can break my already set to muscle memory method of:
Ctrl C -> Ctrl K -> Ctrl V -> Ctrl A -> Ctrl X (granted it only works in Firefox)
tunamanJul 26th 2010 2:04PM
If you use Firefox, the "Extended Copy Menu" extension works even better. It adds "Copy as Plain Text" and "Copy as HTML" options to the context menu. Of course, this app apparently works anywhere in Windows, while ECM only works in FF. But 99% of the time, when I want to copy something without formatting, it's from the web.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4554/
MikeJul 26th 2010 2:22PM
Autohotkey always crashes on me in Win 7.
Puretext is perfect simplicity. I think I'm weeping with joy.
Rodrigo P. GhedinJul 27th 2010 8:23AM
Copying on Chrome, just hit "Ctrl + Shift + V", and all formatting from clipboard goes away.
[]'s!
ronanJul 27th 2010 1:04PM
I've been looking for a Linux equivalent for a long time... suggestions?
John-PaulAug 3rd 2010 11:17AM
It surely doesn't seem necessary to have an application always running just for this one simple feature especially with a working set of 5mb! I mean honestly, how many times would you actually use this?
IT DonutAug 3rd 2010 11:23AM
I didn't know about CTRL+K! That's a handy tip in itself! But yeah, this defo beats using Notepad or the Run box to remove formatting.