Like most people, you may copy pieces of Web sites to a word processor when you research online. And, like most people, you probably have to battle all of the codes and images that end up on your Clipboard when you copy a section of most sites. To make things easier, there’s a freeware product, PureText.
PureText strips images and typeface codes from anything on your Windows XP Clipboard. Load it into memory, and the program lets you assign its paste command to a key combo such as Windows key-V so that the current contents of your Clipboard will paste into an application as unformatted text—and only text.
PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically.
After running PureText.exe, you will see a “PT” tray icon appear near the clock on your task bar. You can click on this icon to remove formatting from the text that is currently on the clipboard. You can right-click on the icon to display a menu with more options.
PureText only removes rich formatting from text. This includes the font face, font style (bold, italics, etc.), font color, paragraph styles (left/right/center aligned), margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, pictures, embedded objects, etc. However, it does not modify the actual text. It will not remove or fix new-lines, carriage returns, tabs, or other white-space. It will not fix word-wrap or clean up your paragraphs.
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