Can you say: “PureText makes pasting pure text purely simple”, fifty time really fast? Ha!<\/p>\n
Whatever email program you use, you\u2019ve likely encountered this problem: You\u2019re writing and email and you copy text from a Web page or a Word doc or PDF file, and paste it in your email. You notice that the font is different, the font size is different, the style is different \u2014 in short it looks awful. And just bad, everything you type after you paste something is in the same font and style as what you just pasted.<\/p>\n
You can avoid pasting formatted text into a formatted email several ways. One way is to open NotePad (or some other text editor) and paste the text then copy the text from NotePad and paste it in your email. But there\u2019s an easier way.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, when we\u2019re doing our newsletters, we\u2019ll copy something from our Web site and paste it the HTML document, or we\u2019ll copy part of a news article for our Newsbytes section, like email, pasting formatted text directly into a HTML (Web page) document results in the fonts and styles being changed. This would result in a messy newsletter with several different fonts, font sizes and font styles \u2014 and that would be distracting and look awful. So we always pasted the copied text in to MetaPad (a text editor) then copy it from there and paste in the newsletter. Pasting formatted text into a text editor like MetaPad or NotePad removes all the formatting and converts it to plain text.<\/p>\n
We have started using a program called PureText which allows us to copy formatted text and paste it into a HTML document (or an email) without pasting it in a text editor, by simply pressing Windows Key + V.<\/p>\n
If you often pasted formatted text from Facebook, Web sites, Word docs, PDF docs, etc. into emails or web documents, you\u2019ll find that PureText can save you a lot of time.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a bit from the developer\u2019s site:<\/p>\n
“Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple by adding a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to paste text to any application without formatting.<\/em><\/p>\n
After running PureText.exe, you will see a \u201cPT\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
The easiest way to use PureText is to simply use its hot-key to paste text instead of using the standard CTRL+V hot-key that is built into most Windows applications. To configure PureText, right-click on its tray icon and choose \u201cOptions\u201d from the pop-up menu. The default hot-key is WINDOWS+V, but this can be changed. In this Options window, you can also configure PureText to run each time you log into Windows.<\/p>\n
What PureText Will and Will Not Do<\/p>\n
PureText only removes rich formatting from text. This includes the font face, font style (bold, italics, etc.), font color, paragraph styles (left\/right\/center aligned), margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, pictures, embedded objects, etc. However, it does not modify the actual text. It will not remove or fix new-lines, carriage returns, tabs, or other white-space. It will not fix word-wrap or clean up your paragraphs. If you copy the source code of a web page to the clipboard, it is not going to remove all the HTML tags. If you copy text from an actual web page (not the source of the page), it will remove the formatting.<\/p>\n
PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We know that know some of you probably would never need a great little tool like this, but many of you know the hassle of cross-formatting when pasting from one format into an email. While you could paste whatever kind of formatted text and change your email to plain text, you\u2019d end up with plain text email \u2014 and no styles or fonts or pictures allowed.<\/p>\n
You can get PureText in 32-bit or 64-bit format. It works on all versions of Windows from XP through Windows 10. It does not install \u2013 it\u2019s a zip file, just unzip it and click on the exe file to run it. You should of course, right-click on the exe and create shortcuts on your start menu, taskbar, or desktop, to make it easier to run it next time. The file sizes (both 32-bit and 64-bit) are under 20 KB\u2026. so it\u2019s a tiny program you might find very useful. You can read more about and\/or download PureText from here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
PS: We use PureText to paste developer’s descriptions for our Site Picks and Freeware Picks. We just scoop up some text from the developer’s site and use PurtText to paste it in our newsletter. If we pasted it directly into the newsletter, it would not keep the format of our newsletter.\u00a0We do use what we recommend, you see?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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