Kevin’s Picks: PureText
Due to the nature of my work, I spend a lot of time in front of my computers, and do a LOT of time copying and pasting. For the longest time, I have first pasted into Notepad to strip out the formatting of the source, then copy and paste that into the program I want the text in. This is time consuming and tedious. Someone on a podcast recently suggested using PureText instead, and I love it!
You can setup a keyboard shortcut to strip out the formatting and just use the plain text, which is wonderful!
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You can download PureText from SteveMiller.com, or use the links there to download it from places like the Microsoft Store.
Here is a quote from Steve’s website where he describes PureText.
PureText is a tiny tray utility that removes all text formatting from your clipboard and optionally pastes the resulting pure text to the active window with a single hotkey.
Have you ever copied some text from a web page or Word document, and wanted to paste it as plain text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application. Better yet, you can configure a PureText Hotkey to convert and paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting.
After running PureText, you will see a “PT” icon appear near the clock on your task bar. You can click on this icon to remove formatting from the text that is currently on the clipboard. You can right-click on the icon to display a menu with more options.
I appreciate any tool that can save me time from the tedious parts of my work. I would honestly pay for this tool I find it so valuable, but for now he’s offering it for free. So please check it out!
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