Tell me if you’ve had this problem: you copy some text and paste it into a word processor, a spreadsheet, or any other app that supports stylized text and end up with text that looks different than ...

We've been using copy-and-paste shortcuts to move text between applications for years. And products like Microsoft's Word and other 365 productivity apps have annoyed us for just as long when copying ...

The free PureText utility lets you paste text from the Web and applications without the formatting, images, and other nontext elements. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

Microsoft's open-source PowerToys tool is a great way to customize your Windows experience. It has options to optimize app windows for big monitors, preview new image types in File Explorer, and more.

As soon as you hit Windows Key + Shift + V, a clean interface pops up with your clipboard content. Alternatively, if you've ...

I posted this in the software thread but I realize now this is probably a Windows question...<P>How do you copy/paste plain text only and not rich text? I always have to use "Paste Special" because ...

Microsoft has added two new utilities to the open-source PowerToys toolset to help Windows users paste text without formatting and make moving the mouse across multiple screens or on ultra-wide ...

Recently, I explained how to use special paste options in several programs to remove rich-text formatting when you just want to paste the actual letters and symbols you’ve copied from one place to ...

I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu 15.10 quite a bit, and I have an issue when using the Terminal: if I paste into the terminal, then I get control characters before the text. This happens most of all when ...

Smart text selection in Android O uses on-device machine learning to recognize phone numbers and addresses, as well as improve the copy-and-paste experience. New in Developer Preview 4 is the ability ...

Regular readers of Mac Gems know that I spend a lot of time working with text—and that I’m always looking for ways to clean up that text. For the ultimate in text cleaning, my tool of choice is ...