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The most amazing property of unformatted text is that it has none.
But isn’t it the basic building block of all that we write and design?
Ugh, plain text is so dull!
Where’s the color"where’s the stylized font"where’s the pizzazz?
Yeah, it’s ho-hum for sure.
The feature as we all know is right there in MS Word.
There’s also thePaste Optionssmart tag but it still involves moving the hands and selecting an option.
It’s irksome if one had to do it repeatedly.
As far as timesavers go, there’s nothing similar to the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl-V for unformatted text.
Oh wait, there are!
Hold on to your mouse.
I will put down the three ways toalwayspaste without formatting and I invite you to contribute your own.
Hey"it’s right there in MS Word!
The feature is more targeted -Match Destination Formatting.
Thanks to a neat little freeware calledPureTextwe can strip the format from any copied block of source text.
PureText gives us a new shortcut key using Windows Key +V which is the default hotkey for the app.
In brief, they are productivity tools for power users and this ability is built into MS Office.
A simple Macro program lets us paste text into a Word document without the original source formatting.
Here’s how it is "
Give it a rip by copying and pasting some text.
The three ways give a simple makeover to a very basic document operation.
In their own way they illustrate that productivity can be had in the tiniest of details.
