Has this ever happened to you? You copy some text from, say, a Web page into a Word document (or vice versa), only to end up with all kinds of funky formatting: weird fonts, improper spacing, and the ...

I've noticed The Oregonian has started to print "Bizarro" in strip format, versus the panel format it's been in since hunter-gatherer days. "Bizarro" is unique to the panel format, and its appeal lies ...

When copying text in OS X, you wind up with one of two things on the clipboard: formatted text, which retains font and style information, and unformatted text, which is simply the bare text. Which ...

Unfortunately, text copied from, say, the Web to a blog tool or Word to a Web form often comes with a lot of unwanted formatting. Drives me nuts. [ Automate Common Tasks with AutoHotKey ] AutoHotkey ...

You copy something, paste it into Word, and suddenly it’s a formatting disaster. You aren't alone. I learned these paste tricks the hard way—so you don’t have to. Paste Special should be your go-to ...

Way back in August of 2004, I reviewed Plain Clip, a useful tool for those who frequently work with formatted text. I continue to use Plain Clip many times each day, but since my original review, the ...

Sometimes even the best intentions of developers can't account for user preference, and after speaking with many other Mac users, this certainly seems to be the case with OS X's habitual tendency to ...

Windows only: Anyone who uses email can dig up a popular forwarded message or deep conversation thread rendered nearly unreadable by formatting along the way. StripMail is a free program that not only ...