How do I cut-and-paste an email, so that paste will be in pure text (stripping all html)

I need to be able to select and copy and email, then paste it into a textbox (Sharepoint multi-line extended field). It messes things up when you do this directly since emails have a ton of html in them. How do I copy and then paste the text only?

Lance Roberts

Posted 2010-08-19T21:52:32.233

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Is there a "paste as plain text" option in Sharepoint? – ChrisF – 2010-08-19T22:11:35.447

@ChrisF, I haven't found it yet, but it looks like my real problem may be deeper. – Lance Roberts – 2010-08-19T22:53:17.610

is there no Paste Special in Sharepoint? – Zach – 2011-08-18T00:28:00.143

Answers

What I usually do is paste the text into notepad then copy it again before pasting it elsewhere. That should also remove any font styles and colors applied to the text.

John T

Posted 2010-08-19T21:52:32.233

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1This is the poor man's solution but it WORKS. – Shinrai – 2010-08-19T22:40:07.457

As mentioned above, you can use Notepad as a middleman for the text, or if you run Windows and you need to do this a lot, it may be easier to download a program called PureText that does the same thing.

There are nearly a million other of these scripts, but PureText seems to be the most configurable and GUI-hugging.

digitxp

Posted 2010-08-19T21:52:32.233

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