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PureText

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PureText is a tiny (13Kb) application for Windows that allows you to paste text to any application without formatting, using a hotkey (default Win + V).

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License model

  • Free • Proprietary

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
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Features

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  1.  Portable
  2.  No installation

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  • plain-text
  • copy-paste
  • no-formatting

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PureText information

  • Developed by

    US flagSteve P. Miller

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5

  • Alternatives

    6 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about PureText, and it has gotten 34 likes

PureText was added to AlternativeTo by Aerialsky on Sep 12, 2009 and this page was last updated Aug 30, 2017.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
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Sep 14, 2021
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It just works fine. WIN+V is the default Hotkey for PureText. Works fine with Win10

Top Negative Comment
DavidGP
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Aug 9, 2020
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Unfortunately too unreliable to give it more than 2 stars. Almost never works in diverse programs, e.g. Outlook 2016, PDF-XChange Editor and others

horacelaalu
Feb 23, 2021

You can use "Convert to Text" and then paste manually with Ctrl-V. However, it doesn't convert PDFs etc., it only removes HTML and RTF formatting like bold, italic, colors, font face, etc.

Norman
Jun 7, 2017
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Simplicity in action.

What is PureText?

PureText is a tiny (13Kb) application for Windows that allows you to paste text to any application without formatting, using a hotkey (default Win + V).

The tool is especially useful for copying text from web pages and is very simple to use. Just copy text from a web page as usual and paste it using the shortcut key (Win + V).

PureText is a free, portable application, so no installation is needed. The tool removes rich formatting from text such font face, font style, font color, paragraph, margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, pictures, embedded objects, etc. However, it does not modify the actual text. Hence: "pure text."

PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a paste, followed by a select all, and then a copy. It works on Windows NT up to 10, depending on the version you use.

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