Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bobthepanda 1337 days ago
I know in Word and maybe other MS products you usually get an option of

* keep source formatting

* match destination formatting

* text only

2 comments

None of which quite do what they say, in my experience. For actual text-only pasting, I often end up pasting into a fresh notepad, then copying that and pasting into Word. Otherwise, newlines at least sometimes get altered. Similarly "match destination formatting" often gets confused by formatting changes within the pasted text. I often end up pasting even formatted text via notepad and then recreating the formatting by hand.
Exactly, but the implementation is nontrivial/nonobvious if I'm copying from the web for example.