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PureText: a Handy Clipboard De-formatting Utility

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I seem to spend a lot of time cutting text from web pages or Visual Studio and pasting it into email messages. Oftentimes this causes all manner of wierdness in Outlook 2003, especially when the email messages are formatted as rich HTML.

I found a nifty utility which will remove most of the formatting information from text in the clipboard so you can paste it as plain text. It's called PureText, it's free, and I find it very useful.

PureText puts an icon in your task tray which you can click to convert whatever is at the top of the clipboard stack into plain text, or you can configure a hotkey to do this and, optionally, paste the text wherever the active cursor sits.

You can get it from: https://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

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  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2004
    You may also be interested in yankee clipper (http://www.yankee-clipper.net/)
    It not only keeps track of all you clipboard entries, you can also conver an entry to to plain text.
  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2004
    I am always running into this problem with copying from Word into a .NET Control that does rich text like FreeTextBox. I always have to paste into notepad and then into freetextbox. This might help that.

    I have found that if I copy from the web there is an extension in FireFox called Copy as Plain Text that will do that right from the browser.
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