Removing text format when copying text from CHS into another application

[dcwul62]

Say I am writing a mail, or creating a Word doc.

I want to paste text that I copy-pasted from (e.g.) a website to the mail or Word doc.

I would select the text from CHS Main window, copy that and paste into the mail.
Now, when copying from the main window, I would like the text layout/format be removed, i.e. non-formatted text.
So once it is pasted in mail/word.doc it will adopt the textformat from the mail or word.doc.

If at all possible, how to do this?

TIA
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[tomos]

CHS always remembers the formatting from the last clip. The only way I know of to strip the formatting, is to copy more text (i.e. after you've copied the text you want) - the text you want to paste will now be in second place in the list - when you paste this it will not be formatted.

That's a messy workaround though - hopefully someone else will have a more graceful method. I know there are formatting presets, but dont know if they can be used to strip formatting (?)

[dcwul62]

Up front, sorry for the delay.
I did not get a notification, apparently I need to tag notifications in my profile, or so.

Anyway, thanks.

Vainly tried to get the same window as above. Q: How to get this?

Regretfully selecting text and ctrl-c does not work.

Maybe a new option: strip format then.

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Removing text format when copying text from CHS into another application

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later .. I found it, click on the taskbar button. ahum..

[tomos]

Vainly tried to get the same window as above. Q: How to get this?

-dcwul62 (August 15, 2013, 06:44 AM)

it's the "Quick-paste" menu. I'm not sure what the default shortcut is - have a look in preferences:



and look what else is on offer there!!
"Paste last clip as plaintext"

[IainB]

You will probably find this a bit quicker (no menus needed) and thus a timesaver - use the approach here: CHS tip - retain last clip's formatting with an AutoHotKey workaround script

You basically choose - at the time of pasting - whether you want to paste some copied text with or without formatting, and you can paste it a second time with formatting after having first pasted it without formatting. It's effectively a workaround to CHS' default destruction of the text formatting, but it only works on the last item to have been copied to the Clipboard.

[mouser]

CHS always remembers the formatting from the last clip. The only way I know of to strip the formatting, is to copy more text (i.e. after you've copied the text you want) - the text you want to paste will now be in second place in the list - when you paste this it will not be formatted.

is this true?

i thought the way it worked was that if you use Ctrl+V you will get the normal formatting since you are using the windows clipboard, but if you use the quick-paste menu, EVEN IF ITS THE FIRST ITEM, it would strip formatting.  no?

[tomos]

CHS always remembers the formatting from the last clip. The only way I know of to strip the formatting, is to copy more text (i.e. after you've copied the text you want) - the text you want to paste will now be in second place in the list - when you paste this it will not be formatted.

is this true?

-mouser (August 17, 2013, 05:44 AM)

... eh...    no

i thought the way it worked was that if you use Ctrl+V you will get the normal formatting since you are using the windows clipboard, but if you use the quick-paste menu, EVEN IF ITS THE FIRST ITEM, it would strip formatting.  no?

-mouser (August 17, 2013, 05:44 AM)

Dunno why I never noticed that with my very roundabout 'workaround'  

[dcwul62]

"Paste last clip as plaintext"

-tomos (August 15, 2013, 08:43 AM)

tried that, regretfully CHS crashes.
regretfully.
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[tomos]

"Paste last clip as plaintext"

-tomos (August 15, 2013, 08:43 AM)

tried that, regretfully CHS crashes.
regretfully.
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-dcwul62 (August 20, 2013, 08:48 AM)

Easiest would be then if mouser could fix that.
Can you give details - what's your OS, etc.?

I tried it here (win7 64bit) and it mostly works.
In Wordpad it works as expected.
In a html pane (in InfoQube's web-forum) it works as expected.
In Textmaker wordprocessor (Softmaker), it strips italic and bold - but *not* underline. (Using Quickpaste has the same problem in Textmaker.)


@ dcwul62 -
did you also try mouser's suggestion?

if you use Ctrl+V you will get the normal formatting since you are using the windows clipboard, but if you use the quick-paste menu, EVEN IF ITS THE FIRST ITEM, it would strip formatting.

-mouser (August 17, 2013, 05:44 AM)

[dcwul62]

Matter is solved.

I was constantly trying to accomplish this in a wrong way....  ahum  
(by selecting the text in CHS and then ctrl-c/ctrl-v)

whereas a number of other options were available.
Sorry to all for the confusion.

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[mouser]

Glad you got it working.

However, as Tomos points out, if CHS is ever crashing, then that's a bug in the program I'd like to fix -- so let me know if you've figured out a way to make the program crash!

[dcwul62]

Hi Mouser, well, setting Hotkeys->Capture/View/Spell to CTRL-C and Past last clip as plaintext to CTRL-V, caused CHS to crash repeatedly. Tried it again...

Surely this is not the correct way, I have set them to "None" - no problems anymore.
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[mouser]

Ha, you're right, those do make CHS crash!
Weird. I shall fix.