ClipboardCleaner

Generally speaking, copying and pasting text into the Windows default clipboard application is a simple and straightforward task. Then again, numerous users complain about the irritating issue encounter while pasting with replication of formatting from the source. In the eventuality that you are trying to copy a rather consistent chunk of text, then removing the rich formatting manually can be tedious.

ClipboardCleaner is a tiny utility designed to help you get around this nuisance and paste the desired content as plain text. The app works with the Window default clipboard and also with similar third-party tools.

The app is portable and hence, you can start using it as soon as you decompress the archive. It does not have an interface, but rather you can access it from the System Tray. However, considering the role of the application, the lack of a GUI cannot be considered a major impediment.

You should bear in mind that the tool comes with a single function and hence, does not include advanced settings or options. In fact, in terms of options, you can assign one or two hotkeys so that you can purge the formatting from the copied content without too much hassle.

As far as the type of formatting it can delete, you can count font style, color and face, paragraph style, margins, tables, charts, embedded objects, character spacing, bullets and pictures.

ClipboardCleaner is a rather simple tool that performs an easy function, namely to remove the formatting from the content when you copy it to the clipboard. Consequently, if you need to manually purge rich formatting rather frequently from your default clipboard app, then perhaps you can consider giving this tiny program a try.