Mac utility that may be useful

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Earlier today I discovered an an app called Get Plain Text that automatically strips out formatting when text is copied from a PDF or webpage etc before pasting to another location, such as a web page where it might mess with your results. ‎Get Plain Text on the Mac App Store

You just install it and set your preferences, then forget it. This is free but there is an option to make a donation if you wish and I think this could potentially be a huge time saver. Copy pasting from word docs for example is notorious for causing problems with web pages. I often run text through text wrangler first, before pasting to a Blocs project but this should eliminate the need for that.

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You can also go in to your system preferences and chain the copy/paste keyboard shortcut to paste/match style. Here’s a article on how you can do it.

Casey

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But is that the same thing in this instance with Blocs? We are applying styling to the text in Blocs by choosing a font and size, but you still want to know that the pasted text does not include unwanted remnant of contaminated code. This is what this app would appear to do.

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Just like buses, you wait ages for one to arrive and then two turn up at the same time. This is another free option that was released recently. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paste-plain-text/id1407015686?mt=12

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