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    PureText

    Paste text that is plain text - without any formatting, using a custom hotkey.

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    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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    • Top positive comment  5 months ago • 0 replies
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    It just works fine. WIN+V is the default Hotkey for PureText. Works fine with Win10

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    • Top negative comment  over 1 year ago • 1 reply
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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

    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.

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    Norman
    Comment • over 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    Simplicity in action.

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    • plain-text
    • Clipboard Manager
    • copy-paste
    • no-formatting
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    Summary

    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about PureText, and it has gotten 33 likes

    • Developed by Steve P. Miller
    • Proprietary and Free product.
    • Average rating of 3.5
    • 5 alternatives listed

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

    Recent user activities on PureText

    • ups_tups liked PureText
      4 months ago
    • Gu
      Guest reviewed PureText
      It just works fine. WIN+V is the default Hotkey for PureText. Works fine with Win10
      4 months ago
    • horacelaalu thinks AceText is an alternative to PureText
      AceText is primarily a text-only clipboard history and snippet manager, but it has a feature called "AcePure" which does the same thing as PureText.
      11 months ago