Paste Plain Text with TextExpander

Reader Chris sent me a great idea using Text Expander to remove formatting from text. Create a plain text snippet with nothing but the %clipboard command. When activated, it pastes sans format. Slick.


23 Comments → Paste Plain Text with TextExpander

  2. steve@mcavatar.com

    David, this is great! On the PC I used a free app called PlainText to do this and have missed the functionality in OS X. Your post indicates $clipboard but the command in TE is %clipboard.

  3. steve@mcavatar.com

    David, this is great! On the PC I used a free app called PlainText to do this and have missed the functionality in OS X. Your post indicates $clipboard but the command in TE is %clipboard.

  4. steve@mcavatar.com

    David, this is great! On the PC I used a free app called PlainText to do this and have missed the functionality in OS X. Your post indicates $clipboard but the command in TE is %clipboard.

  5. steve@mcavatar.com

    David, this is great! On the PC I used a free app called PlainText to do this and have missed the functionality in OS X. Your post indicates $clipboard but the command in TE is %clipboard.

  6. steve@mcavatar.com

    David, this is great! On the PC I used a free app called PlainText to do this and have missed the functionality in OS X. Your post indicates $clipboard but the command in TE is %clipboard.

  7. mail@michael-gerloff.de

    Hi, David,
    what do you mean with "when activated"?

    Anyway, most of the time SHIFT+ALT+CMD+V will paste a plain text of the copied stuff in my documents.
    But I guess I did not get the idea behind the snippet …

  8. mail@michael-gerloff.de

    Hi, David,
    what do you mean with "when activated"?

    Anyway, most of the time SHIFT+ALT+CMD+V will paste a plain text of the copied stuff in my documents.
    But I guess I did not get the idea behind the snippet …

  9. mail@michael-gerloff.de

    Hi, David,
    what do you mean with "when activated"?

    Anyway, most of the time SHIFT+ALT+CMD+V will paste a plain text of the copied stuff in my documents.
    But I guess I did not get the idea behind the snippet …

  10. mail@michael-gerloff.de

    Hi, David,
    what do you mean with "when activated"?

    Anyway, most of the time SHIFT+ALT+CMD+V will paste a plain text of the copied stuff in my documents.
    But I guess I did not get the idea behind the snippet …

  11. mail@michael-gerloff.de

    Hi, David,
    what do you mean with "when activated"?

    Anyway, most of the time SHIFT+ALT+CMD+V will paste a plain text of the copied stuff in my documents.
    But I guess I did not get the idea behind the snippet …

  12. JCN

    The best wat to remove formatting from text is with a little program called CopyPaste that sits on your desktop and allows for hundreds of copypastes and many other things. (I have nothing to do with it, just an user.)

  18. Clyde C. Cambridge

    Command+Option+Shift+V = Paste minus any formatting using just Mac OS X without an added app.

    I've also found pasting into Spotlight or Dictionary and then selecting it again and pasting has format stripping abilities.

    FIAT LUX!
    C.C.C.

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