Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

re: Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

Alex Campbell — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:57:00 GMT

"I seem to need it most when pasting to .Text, FrontPage, or Word."

Have a look at the smart tag that appears when you past formatted text into Word (and I think FrontPage). It has several options, one of which is "Keep text only". This will do want you want quicker than another application.

Unfortunately I don't think the FreeTextBox editor in .Text will ever have this.

re: Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

Robert Tenback — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:35:00 GMT

Hi,

This is indeed a nice utility. I myself use Clipomatic for similar functionality. It also clears the formatting from clipboard data and doubles as a clipboard history. The last few items I put on the clipboard will be remembered as plain text, and can be pasted back with the press of a (configurable) keystroke.

Clipomatic: http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml

re: Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

Raymond Chen — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:19:00 GMT

On many programs there is a "Paste Special" menu option that lets you pick whether you want to paste formatted or unformatted.

re: Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

Michael Swanson — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:33:00 GMT

Thanks, Raymond. Yes, I'm aware of the "Paste Special" commands, but unfortunately, implementation isn't consistent, so I can't depend on it everywhere I need to paste. After using PureText for only two days, I'm hooked. The power of Windows+V is awesome.

Cool Tool: PureText

Cool Or What? — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:26:00 GMT

PureText - copy text without formatting

Darrell Norton's Blog — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:34:00 GMT

PureText - copy text without formatting

PureText and my own curiosity

Dim Blog As New ThoughtStream(Me) — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:23:00 GMT

PureText and my own curiosity

Dim Blog As New ThoughtStream(Me) — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:39:00 GMT

re: Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

David Pierson — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:19:15 GMT

Michael - thank you for the link to PureText. I found your page while googling for exactly the same thing, having got tired of the Notepad - Paste - SelectAll - Copy roundabout. I'd already discovered there's no easy way to do it in vbscript or javascript.

But I hadn't found PureText - so thanks again for that!

re: Sanitize Your Clipboard Text

Rick — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:17:20 GMT

Mike,

Many thanks. I'm another of the ones who has been looking for just this to avoid the notepad shuffle.

Bliss! - well, not quite, but certainly very useful.

Rick