How to make copy and pasting just a little easier

Don’t you hate that? You want to copy something from a webpage or a formatted document into another document. Biggest issue (on a Windows machine) is that all formatting comes with the copying. So you end up using a reroute like notepad where you temporarily paste the text, re-copy it and paste it in the proper document. Fear no more! The answer is here! And we shall call it Pure Text! Just download this 13Kb standalone executable and it will nest in your systemtray. Now, the fun starts. Copy a chunk of heavilly formatted text. But! Instead of using Control-V to paste it, use Windows-V. It’s magic! It’s incredible! All text is pasted but without the formatting! A little timesaver, nice and warm in your systemtray. Wouldn’t it be great if everything was as simple?

The Firefox extension “Copy as Plain Text” has the same function. Once installed, it appears in the right-click menu just under “Copy”.
Lorie - 21 02 06 - 18:15

Edit/Paste Special, using “unformatted text” works too.
Doug - 21 02 06 - 22:11

Another usefull tool for copying screen shots and the likes is snagit. I avoid add-ons, but this one is great – can copy sections, windows, or rolling screens to the clipboard with basic editing such as crops a couplke of clicks away. Thanks for the tip
Stewart - 18 04 06 - 19:29

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This is an article which is part of my weblog "What's the Next Action". It deals with everything GTD and the five phases of projectplanning as written by Dave Allen in his book "Getting Things Done".

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