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"Paste As Text" in Notes

Anti-Peeve Utility: Shortcut key for "Paste As Text" is a small Windows utility which will remove any formatting of objects in your clipboard.

This is something which is pretty frustrating when using a Notes client and copying rich content from other sources, and I've found that I can't use the "Paste Special" option as it's always greyed out when copying html. Typically I'll actually open Notepad, paste into there, copy it, and paste it into Notes. It's quite ridiculous how fast I can do this now:

Highlight source text, ctrl-insert to copy, windows+r (or windows+space to start launchy), notepad.exe (or with Launchy I only need to type in a few letters), shift+insert, ctrl+a, shift+del, alt+f4, alt+tab, and finally shift+insert to paste it into Notes. It sounds convoluted, but it takes me about 3-4 seconds to do all of that, as it's something I've had to do many times daily for many years. Thanks IBM.

Anyway, back to the util, the package contains all source code as well as a precompiled binary. Hopefully it'll help someone - I'm too far gone at this point to have any chance of retraining myself.

  Print | posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:38 PM





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