Brilliant. Thanks to all for their suggestions. I am now extra-click free.
The winner is HOVtext. Its like someone designed an application just for me! And so easy to use; it just works straight away. I am forever wanting to "paste-special ...text" in all kinds of contexts and forever getting frustrated by the extra clicks etc. I will use this tool alot. -Pete -----Original message----- From: "Steve Cavanaugh" scavana...@nat-seattle.com Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:01:15 +1000 To: "Combs, Richard" richard.combs at Polycom.com Subject: RE: paste special ...text option > It seems to work on both clipboards from tests I just performed here. > Once installed, you get a system tray icon that is green in the center. > Green means strip the formatting. If you click the icon once, the green > turns to red, which means the HOVtext tool is disabled and the clipboard > works as normal. Click again and it's back to green. That makes it > easy to go back and forth from normal behavior to clean text behavior. > I love it! > > > Steve Cavanaugh > Sr. Technical Writer > NAT Seattle Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:41 AM > To: Steve Cavanaugh; Peter Rule; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: paste special ...text option > > Steve Cavanaugh wrote: > > > There is an easier approach. HOVtext is a public domain system > > utility that automatically strips formatting from items you have > > copied to the clipboard. So when you paste, it has already been > > reduced to simple text. I've been using it here for a while now, and > > I can finally copy and paste from the keyboard without having to go > > through Paste Special. > > Check it out: http://hovklan.com/hovtext/ > > HovText looks useful, Steve, thanks for the link. But does it acually > work for copying and pasting strictly within FM (which uses its own > internal clipboard, not the Windows clipboard)? > > Or is it strictly for Windows clipboard operations, such as pasting > something from another application into FM (which the maker.ini setting > controls)? > > Thanks! > Richard > > > ------ > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-777-0436 > ------ > > > > >