Paste Without Formatting

If you copy text that is styled, like from a Web page, and then paste it, you will get the style as well. If you just want to paste the text, use Edit, Paste and Match Style in TextEdit and Pages. In Word, use Edit, Paste Special.

Comments: 2 Comments

    zppz
    15 years ago

    Thankyouuuu! that was the most annoying thing ever, inserting a bunch of tabs and hyphens in my plain text

    Steve
    13 years ago

    Thanks so much! This is a tremendous time/frustration saver!

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