A few colleagues were talking in a Slack team the other day about discovering “paste without formatting” and kicking themselves for only learning about it relatively recently. I confess despite my ...

Here's something I know affects plenty of users out there. Have you ever pasted text in a document or email message, only to have it formatted differently than all the text around it? Irritating, ...

As Google's flagship text editor, Google Docs is a highly popular platform for composing and editing documents. It's very easy to use and can be accessed on almost any device, may it be a computer or ...

September 16, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Text pasted into your browser, when using a rich text editor like the one found in Gmail, automatically takes ...

Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default. Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

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 ...

Windows only: Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting. PureText strips all of the rich formatting from ...

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 ...