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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)
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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" :D

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.

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