
(If you end up seeing two Special Characters items, you can turn one off via PlaintextPaste’s preferences. In the Menu Title field, enter Paste and Match Style. From the Application drop-down menu, choose All Applications (or you can specify and individual application, like Mail, if you prefer). Special Characters: Choosing this item displays OS X’s Character Palette-useful if another third-party add-on has disabled it unintentionally. In the list at left, choose App Shortcuts.Open Word, On the Tools menu, select Customize Keyboard. (If no text is selected, it pastes the Clipboard contents and then clears the Clipboard afterwards.) Open TextEdit (you can find it via Spotlight, or in Applications). According to your description, you want to change the shortcut and use Command + V to paste the content with ‘Keep Text Only’. Swap Selection with Clipboard: Swaps highlighted text with the contents of the Clipboard-in other words, this feature replaces highlighted text with the Clipboard’s contents and then places the text that was replaced onto the Clipboard.Paste as 7-Bit ASCII: Pastes the contents of the Clipboard as 7-bit ASCII, stripping all “high ASCII” characters (and, if possible, replacing them wth their closest 7-bit ASCII equivalents).Copy Plain Text: Copies highlighted text, unformatted, to the Clipboard, never bothering to grab text styles in the first place.Paste Plain Text: Pastes the contents of the Clipboard as plain text, stripping all formatting.Instead of requiring you to launch a separate application to strip formatting from text, PlaintextPaste actually modifies the Edit menu of Cocoa applications to include a number of new and useful items:
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However, I recently discovered Pozytron’s free PlaintextPaste 0.2 ( ). The options on the Paste menu will depend on the type of data in the selected. On the Home tab, click the arrow next to Paste, and then do any of the following.

Click the first cell in the area where you want to paste what you copied.

It’s a handy utility that I’ve used regularly over the past year and a half. Select the cells that contain the data or other attributes that you want to copy.

In July 2004, I showed you Plain Clip, an application that, when launched, strips the formatting of text on the Clipboard.
