What I usually do to remove formatting in these scenarios is to paste the text into Notepad first, and then copy and paste from Notepad into my target application. Although it takes a few seconds to open Notepad, but this is a rather simple and effective solution, isn't it ?

dotnetjunky, that is what I do (did) too... it is certainly simple, but it is just more steps... (copy text, click on Start Menu... find Notepad... paste the text, Select All, Copy the text... now go paste in your destination) and PureText replaces all of that with Copy then Windows Key + V to paste without formatting.

I always keep a text editor (EditPadPro) open anyway. I just open up a new doc/tab (or use the default if I've not opened any up yet) and then Ctrl-V/A/C. Simple and my hands don't have to leave the keyboard. :)

Cool.

I wrote a Word macro that's useful when I'm writing Word documents or sending e-mail. The macro is simple:

Sub UnformattedPaste()
'
' UnformattedPaste Macro
' Macro recorded 4/7/2004 by Nick Codignotto
'
On Error GoTo RegularPaste

Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdFormatPlainText)
Exit Sub

RegularPaste:
Selection.Paste

End Sub

I map this to Shift+Ins, which is one of two ways to paste. Ctrl+V pastes as normal.

I'l have to check our PureText, though, as it will be useful in apps outside of Word.

Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=209ADBEE-3FBD-482C-83B0-96FB79B74DED&displaylang=EN is a cool tool from MS to remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as HTML.

One interesting feature is "You can copy any fragment of a Word document as HTML and paste it into an HTML or text editor as filtered HTML markup. For example, instead of typing complex HTML tags to create nested tables, create them by using the Draw Table tool in Word. Then select them and click Copy as HTML on the Edit menu to create a compact HTML copy of the tables."

On a unrelated note, I would like to have feedback on my article "Dynamically generate a MS Word document using HTML & CSS" - http://codeproject.com/vb/net/Wordyna.asp and ideas on how to embed images into a Word document (Word 2000 onwards) that is generated from HTML so that the pictures can be viewed even when user is disconnected from the internet.

Thanks

i usually copy the text/item and then Edit->Paste Special->Unformatted Text.
A very simple but effective solution.

rups... sure, if the app you are pasting into has a Paste Special command... .Text doesn't... and many other applications are missing this feature as well

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