Over at Lifehacker there's a tip on creating a hotkey that pastes plain text into Microsoft Word. But it involves creating a macro, which to me seems overcomplicated, and it obviously limits you to ...

In Microsoft Word and Excel, add only the text you copy from a Web page or other source, and leave the images, formatting, and other nontext elements behind. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Pasting text from web pages into Microsoft Word can be a serious pain—all you wanted was the text, but it copies the formatting. Reader Wille writes in with a quick tip to make it simpler. The ...

Despite all the cool productivity porn modern technology has birthed, the Holy Grail for me is simple: I want to create and edit plain text from anywhere (desktop/tablet/phone), and I want the results ...

Microsoft Office Outlook allows you to read all standard mail in the plain text option. If you are concerned that a virus or some malicious script could execute through HTML or through Microsoft ...

Are you tired of the way Word pastes text into your document along with all of the formatting from the other document or Web page intact? And you're not going to take it anymore? Well, I can help you ...

The two most recent versions of Microsoft's word processor let you paste plain text rather than formatted text and graphics when you press Ctrl-V or click the Paste button. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...

Creating effective, great-looking HTML emails can be tricky when you consider today's rendering challenges and concerns such as dark mode and accessibility. So, it's understandable that many marketers ...

Microsoft has added a 'paste as plain text' option to the Windows 10 clipboard history in the latest Preview build available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting with Windows 10 Insider ...