Re: Pasting text without attributes

You may be interested in an add-on called PureText that designed exactly for
this purpose. It runs in the background and allows you to paste the
unformatted text from your clipboard using a user-defined hotkey. The
default is Win + V, which I find convenient because it's so similar to Ctrl
+ V.

Check it out (it's free too!) at:

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

"Jonathan Finney" <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:whz0f.13248$DO.628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks Ron, but I'm not talking about paragraph formatting just character
> attributes such as font, size etc.
>
> This is 'normal' behavoiur. I just wonder why default pasting doesn't
> paste
> just the text without the attributes and whether it's possible to set it
> to
> work that way.
>
> "Ron P" <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Or5AZuOyFHA.2540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "Jonathan Finney" <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:xie0f.8574$hP.2942@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > When I paste text in an Office document such as Word or Excel (or
> anywhere
>> > text attributes are supporetd), the text always retains the attributes
> of
>> > the source document unless I use Paste Special.
>> >
>> > It seems to me that I hardly ever want to paste in this way. I
>> > normally
>> > want to have the text adopt the attributes of the destination document
> and
>> > it's very frustrating to have to use Paste Special, then select Plain
>> > Text,
>> > then click OK every time I want to paste in this way rather than just
>> > hitting Ctrl. V.
>> >
>> > It's particularly annoying when copying and pasting between messages in
>> > Outlook as gives unpredictable results that are rarely what I want.
> And,
>> > of
>> > course, Outlook
>> > doesn't have a Paste Special option which means that to paste just the
>> > text,
>> > I have to open Notepad, paste in the text, copy it again, then paste it
>> > where I want it.
>> >
>> > I guess I can work around the problem and create special short-cuts,
>> > but
>> > I'd
>> > need to do this in every program and this is not really a workable
>> > solution.
>> > Is it not possible to have the default paste action for all Windows
>> > programs
>> > paste just the text without the attributes? Maybe a registry edit?
>> >
>> > Does anybody know why this is the default behaviour? I find it
> difficult
>> > to
>> > believe that the way I work is different to anybody else and can't
> imagine
>> > why it's set up this way.
>>
>> If you are copying and pasting from different Word documents, make sure
> that
>> you are not selecting the PARAGRAPH mark when copying as the formatting
>> is
>> held there.
>>
>
>


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