As usual Microsoft has pretty extensive documentation about the method that you can find here. Find the entry for the add-on and click Options. You can activate the feature manually, or check “Automatically remove formatting” to make the app take care of it every time you copy something. While not very common there are situations, for example when calling an external exe, where secure string are not supported and this is an handy way to use them without storing them in clear text in your code. Once it’s downloaded and installed type about:addons in the URL bar. I changed the column type to 'Multiple lines of text' but forgot that by default the Specify the type of text to allow: property had 'Rich text (Bold, italics, text alignment, hyperlinks)' selected. In the Read as Plain Text section, check the Read all standard mail in plain text to disable received messages from being viewed as HTML and view email in plain text only. Get Plain Text will convert any bit of text into plain text, no matter where you copied it from (a website, PDF document or elsewhere). The external developer had added a column to the list as 'Single line of text' which wasn't sufficient for the need. In other words, everything that isn’t plain text! Now you can put plain text in your letters and documents using the copy/paste functions, without having to clean it up manually. It instantly removes everything unneeded: colours, typeface size, style (for example, boldface/italics), hyper-links, images, etc. Get Plain Text is a practical utility program to process text within Mac OS: It converts copied text into plain text. This app will lower your stress level and save you tons of time! It does not bother you with windows, prompt dialogs, or any other bells and whistles. Once the job is done, the program closes automatically. Taking only 70 Kb of the disk space, Get Plain Text runs and removes unwanted formatting from the clipboard in less than a second.
#GET PLAIN TEXT MAC OS#
What does Get Plain Text do? If you’ve used the copy/paste functions in Mac OS before, you’ll appreciate how valuable Get Plain Text is! We use it ourselves every day. Get Plain Text is a small and quick clipboard extender.