Copying and pasting text directly from a webpage to a word document brings a lot of unwanted formatting, tags links etc along with it, which is sometimes a real pain if you are researching on internet. Pasting in notepad for removing formatting and then pasting in MS word is an option but is a bit time consuming. Would be good if somehow you can directly paste from a webpage to a word document without bringing in any text formatting.
PureText is one such utility that helps removing unwanted text formatting, tags, links etc with a simple Windows hot-key combination. It’s a tiny application just about 28KB with no installation required simply place the file at a desired location (Program Files, C Drive, My Documents etc), create a shortcut to it on desktop and run it.
Normal copy paste commands are “Ctrl + C” and “Ctrl + V”, with PureText the copy command remains the same as “Ctrl + C” while the paste command is configurable; by default the paste hot keys in PureText are “Windows Key + V”.
PureText sits in the system tray, right click on it for options, here you can select the option to run PureText when Windows start, configure the paste hot-keys if you don’t like the default “Windows Key + V” there are a lot of available combinations to choose from, it can also capture the key combination you desire just click the “Capture the next key typed” and hit the desired key combination on your keyboard.
PureText version 2.0 is completely free to use. Download it at here.