Copying and pasting text without the formatting

Cianos

Hi,
I'm hoping to find a convenient way to copy a page of text and be able to paste it without it's formatting - ie to paste it directly as plain text.

Can anyone explain a quick way of doing this other than posting it in to a different text field and re-copying it?

Thanks very much

Sad Professor

Is "Past and match style" not sufficient?

I don't know one off-hand, but there are utilities out there that that will convert your clipboard to plain text.

thund3rbird_

where app are you pasting into?

if it's just textedit before you paste go to format [I think - not near a mac at the moment] > make plain text

when you paste it will be just plain unformatted text

if pasting into some other app - paste as plain text in textedit first then copy from there & paste into your app

mathepac

Sad Professor wrote: »

Is "Past and match style" not sufficient?...

That's an application-specific menu-option in Pages IIRC.

In MS Word you can "Paste" or "Paste Special" from the Edit menu. Selecting "Paste Special" brings up a number of options one of which is something like "unformatted text".

Other apps have other options; try selecting "Paste" from the Edit menu using the modifier keys <CTRL>, <CMD> or Apple Key, <ALT>, etc

Sad Professor

mathepac wrote: »

That's an application-specific menu-option in Pages IIRC.

No, afaik it is in all cocoa apps.