[Solved] Copy/paste one style to another

[midithru]

Copying from one document with one style then pasting into another document with a different style preserves the original style.

Do you know if there's an easy way to paste into the new document and have the pasted content take on the new style without having to re-build the pasted text each time?

[John_Ha]

1 Edit > Paste Special ..., and choose Unformatted

2 Try the magic utility PureText

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[midithru]

Edit > Paste Special and choosing unformatted worked! Thank you John. This will save so much time

[John_Ha]

If you install PureText, it works in any application, giving you two options: ctrl+V pastes as normal but Windows key+V pastes as unformatted.

[robleyd]

I suspect that Puretext, being a Windows software, will not be much use on the OPs Mac.

[John_Ha]

I suspect that Puretext, being a Windows software, will not be much use on the OPs Mac.

Oops ... but it will be useful for others searching I wonder if there is a Mac equivalent?

Many years ago, before I discovered Paste > Unformatted ..., in applications, I used to keep a copy of Notepad open and paste into it, then copy from Notepad and paste that. Notepad works very well as a "format stripper".