Comments on: Create a keyboard shortcut to paste plain text

In Microsoft Word and Excel, add only the text you copy from a Web page or other source, and leave the images, formatting, and other nontext elements behind.

[dsk_nj]

You apparently missed the point entirely. You don't need to click anything to paste unformatted text. Just use the hot key. Frankly, if I had to click somewhere to paste plain text, the value of the utility would be reduced to the point of a "so what". The documentation might have been a little clearer, I suspect, but if you are clicking on the tray icon you're working WAY too hard.

[doreilly]

I'm using the latest version of PureText, and the only way I can get the plain-paste shortcut to work is by placing the text in the clipboard by pressing Ctrl-c, then clicking the "PT" icon in the system tray, and finally pressing the Windows key and v. If I don't click the system-tray icon, nothing pastes. What am I missing?

[doreilly]

Upon further review, it appears that to paste plain text without having to click the PureText icon, the application into which you're pasting has to be open before the content is placed into the clipboard. I was copying the material from a Web page, and then opening the program I wanted to paste it into. When both the destination app is open when the material is placed into the clipboard, the Windows key-v combination pastes the plain text without having to click the PureText icon. (At least the macro approach saves you a download.) Thank you for pointing out the error.

[Jack K1]

It's not a wise idea to save macros in Normal.dot (though it is easiest, and it is the default). Too many organizations choose to use Normal.dot for their own purposes (they shouldn't but they do). As a result, any time the organization decides to update this template, the user will lose his or her macros and have to start all over again. Naturally, this can be very frustrating. Users should instead create their own template in which to store their personal macros.

[doreilly]

Won't people who create and use their own template for the plain-paste macro lose access to their organization's custom macros in the Normal.dot template? Or is there a way to merge the two templates in some way?

[Wookiee-1138]

Would this work in OpenOffice?

[firefly-18]

Thanks for this handy little trick. I have Office 2002 but the steps were still very similar. I shall be using this quite a bit I'd imagine

[WDS2]

I wish there was a way to make pasting plain text the default for any ^v paste. 99.44% of the time that's all I want to do.

[timada42]

Should this work with office 2007 too? I would like to try this. It looks like a good tip that will make my daily work lot easier! Thank you for it! Thumb?s up!
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[haywardz]

Thank you so much for this tip. Extremely helpful to me! It worked great.

[grayforge]

Late post, but awesome trick and extremely clear instructions.

How about a more universal plainPaste? IE, one that works in Outlook as well?

Thanks!

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