{"id":140,"date":"2007-03-25T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/paste-as-unformatted-text.php"},"modified":"2007-03-25T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T14:35:00","slug":"paste-as-unformatted-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/paste-as-unformatted-text.php","title":{"rendered":"Paste as unformatted text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtalkradio.com.au\/\">Tech Talk Radio<\/a> on a podcast I herd about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemiller.net\/puretext\/\">Pure Text<\/a> by Steve Miller. This is a neat little app that sits in the icon tray and when you press &lt;windows&gt; and &lt;v&gt; (or another customisable combination) it pastes the text in the clipboard without formatting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a solution to a problem that has needed a fix for years. In the past I have had to search the menus for &#8220;Paste Special&#8230;&#8221; or paste in to notepad and copy again. Now if I can persuade a few others to use it I will not have to continually remove the varying formatting in shared documents, or fix web pages blatantly copied form a Word document.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first usefully application of Steve&#8217;s that I have enjoyed using. As a developer Dependency Walker is a great help in diagnosing Windows compatibility problems. He also has many other useful applications on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemiller.net\/apps\/\">his web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When listening to Tech Talk Radio on a podcast I herd about Pure Text by Steve Miller. This is a neat little app that sits in the icon tray and when you press &lt;windows&gt; and &lt;v&gt; (or another customisable combination) it pastes the text in the clipboard without formatting. This is a solution to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-2g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}