You know how frustrating it is when you select some text from one source – a Word doc, a web page, a PowerPoint slide, a PDF, an email – to copy it and paste it into another document you’re working on. Usually, the font and paragraph formatting properties are copied into the new document and they can be a real pain to undo. So you spend extra time fiddling with indents and line breaks, etc.
Here’s a fantastic solution: PureText is a no-cost utility which, with a single click, strips the formatting properties of whatever text you’ve copied into your clipboard so that when pasted, the text appears with the properties of the document you’re working on. (PureText is a Windows-based program, but there are a variety of “plain text conversion” options for the Mac, too.)
Once installed, PureText sits as an icon in your system tray, and all you do is click the icon AFTER you’ve copied the target text and BEFORE you paste it. One click. It’s that simple. PureText will save you hours of time and headache, and make you more productive.
You can download PureText here: http://SteveMiller.net/PureText
