Plain Text !

Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that pasting items into Word or an Outlook E-Mail also copies in the formatting from the source? The only way around it is to do a paste special, unformatted text, which is an irritating mouse click exercise.

Well – I found this very cool and free utility at http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext. Just run this utility (No install program, just put the exe into a folder, and run it. Then you can tell it to "start with windows" by setting the options from the tray icon). From that point on using Windows-V (the windows key + v) instead of the normal paste shortcut of ctrl-v will paste plain unformatted text. Alleluia.

Now if only there were a Windows hot-key combination to automagically delete spam …