Nifty Program of the Day: PureText
Monday, September 26th, 2005Have you ever tried to copy something from a webpage into Word? It takes forever, and when it finally finishes, it’s a hideous nightmare of tables, photographs, and links, when what you usually want is just the text.
You can always paste as text (Edit > paste special > unformatted text > OK) of course, but that takes your hands off of the keyboard, slowing you down and interrupting your thoughts. The same goes for copying it into notepad first and from there into Word, and for clicking on the little paste options button that pops up.
The easier way to handle this situation is by keeping PureText running in the background. When you want to paste something, hit Windows Key-V, and it’ll spit it out nice, clean text.
(Bonus Productivity Tip: When you want to copy something, instead of going to the menu and hitting Edit > Copy, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C. When you want to cut, use Ctrl-X, and when you want to paste, hit Ctrl-V. This saves you time and prevents you from losing your train of thought.)
(Via one of my favorite blogs, LifeHacker)
