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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tell me if you’ve had this problem: you copy some text and paste it into a word processor, a spreadsheet, or any other app that supports stylized text and end up with text that looks different than ...

We've been using copy-and-paste shortcuts to move text between applications for years. And products like Microsoft's Word and other 365 productivity apps have annoyed us for just as long when copying ...

Regular readers of Mac Gems know that I spend a lot of time working with text—and that I’m always looking for ways to clean up that text. For the ultimate in text cleaning, my tool of choice is ...

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 ...

I posted this in the software thread but I realize now this is probably a Windows question...<P>How do you copy/paste plain text only and not rich text? I always have to use "Paste Special" because ...

I find it extremely annoying how when I copy/paste in Office (or most Windows apps for that matter), the paste takes the source font properties instead of using the ones from the document you're ...

Smart text selection in Android O uses on-device machine learning to recognize phone numbers and addresses, as well as improve the copy-and-paste experience. New in Developer Preview 4 is the ability ...