UnFormat
I’ve been using this dashboard widget for a while, it’s simple and super-useful.
It’s a one-click button that strips all the formatting out of any text you have in the clipboard. Great for pasting text between applications when you don’t want to also carry over formatting.
For me, at work, it’s useful for two major reasons:
- Getting easily around the ever-present Microsoft Word bug where it pastes text into InDesign as a PNG image.
- Pasting text into a LotusNotes email as plain text. Because LotusNotes feels the need to retain all styles from the source and offers no way to undo the action, or paste-and-match-style.
If you can even think of an occasional use-case for this, get it. And try not to forget you have it when you need it (I do this all the time with apps).
