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PureText

Version: 20

Downloads Count: 48,198

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Oct 18, 2007

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me, Windows Vista

File Size: 13 KB

Author: Steve Miller

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I try to keep the number of autoloading programs down to a bare minimum, but I couldn't go without PureText in my systray.

When you paste text into almost any Windows program, you get both text and formatting. But more often than not, all you really want is text.

Steve Miller's PureText gives you that option. Once you have this little freebie running in the background, you can strip all formatting out of the clipboard's text and insert it into your current application by simply pressing a user-defined hotkey. I recommend sticking with the default, -V, because it's close to the -V standard for regular pasting.

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Reviewed by: originalfred

10-29-2008

Duration of ownership: 5 Years

Strengths: Copy and paste with plain text. It is a simple concept and a GREAT program. You can configure any hot key. Since Ctrl-x,c, and v are already used for copy and past, I recommed Ctrl-z or Ctrl-t.

Weaknesses: You need to put a shortcut in Startup so it will always be available.

Overall Evaluation: I love this program. I copy and paste from web sites to Excel all the time, and this program makes it so much faster than using "Paste Special, Values". It also works great with E-mail.
Reviewed by: bobengel

11-20-2007

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: I haven't used this program enough to respond but it seems to work as designed.

Weaknesses: Installation was very confusing. Clicking on the ZIP file resulted in an extracted file named puretext.exe but double clikcing this file produced an error, "Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be located". Like a previous reviewer noticed, a dark "PT" icon could be seen in the Taskbar Tray meaning that the program was installed anyway. Normally, after an installaton file is unzipped, the extracted .exe file is selected to perform the actual installaton. PureText seems to install automatically after the extracton. I'm using a computer with a VISTA OS.

Overall Evaluation: I need more time to use the program for further comments but it seems to do the job itended.
Reviewed by: bookworm

11-04-2007

Duration of ownership: 2 Years

Strengths: PureText works as advertised, removing all formatting from text.

Weaknesses: I haven't found any except that I had problems using the default hotkey and have had better luck with CtrlTab.

Overall Evaluation: PureText is a simple program that does what its author claims it will do. I rely on it at work to paste from webpages into my word processor without dragging coding that messes up my formatting. I have also shared it with many of my colleagues at work, all of whom appreciate it as much as I do. Kudos to Mr. Miller for creating this much-needed program!
Reviewed by: Montalvo

10-26-2007

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Appears to do what it says it will.

Weaknesses: Failed to provide any indication that it had loaded. Only when I Googled "PureText" did I notice the "PT" located in the quick-launch bar (lower left corner of the screen). Their homepage gives helpful info on how to use it.

Overall Evaluation: My wife composes e-mail messages in Word which I then edit for her and paste into Outlook Express. But sometimes the formating fouls up the message so this ap is perfect for me.

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