Copy-Paste WITHOUT the text formatting

pyr3pyr3
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
How do I copy-paste without all the font/font size/text color staying there? It's really annoying trying to copy-paste from a website I'm viewing in Safari to an IM with a friend in iChat and the text stays white ... on a white background, just because the text on the page was white.



I know that iChat has the option-command-v/c commands for style, but command+v is pasting style too... and Safari doesn't have a copy/paste style option.

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    swizzmacswizzmac Posts: 12member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pyr3

    How do I copy-paste without all the font/font size/text color staying there?



    Only a workaround: Have a simple text-editor (e.g., BBEdit of www.barebones.com) open, paste it there, copy again an paste it to iChat.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    You're going to hate this answer but in MS Word you use "paste special" from the edit menu. You want "unformatted text".
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