PureText+

One of the most important Windows features, even though practically invisible, is the clipboard. It creates a temporary copy of any kind of file and text to help you easily transfer it wherever needed. Working with text, however, might get a bit frustrating when formatting is involved, but you can rely on applications like PureText+ to remove any extra formatting options.

Note that the application doesn’t require installation in order to function, so you can just as well deploy it on a thumb drive in case you need or want to have it at hand whenever necessary. On the other hand, you do need to be sure that .NET Framework is already on the target PC, because it’s a mandatory requirement for functionality.

It minimizes to the tray area on launch, and is the place where you find it most of the times so it doesn’t take up any precious desktop space for no reason. In fact, there’s little to no reason to even bring up the configuration panel, other than to view or edit the paste key, and decide whether or not to make it run with Windows, case in which registry entries are modified, but without affecting stability of the target PC.

What the application aims and accomplishes to perform is to cut all format options of copied text so you can paste plain strings in any field. Even though modern text editors come with a special paste method to already remove formatting, this comes in handy for making all worries go away as your global text format remover.

The set of options you get control over is not abundant, but helps adjust general behavior. A custom hotkey command can be used, with the possibility to combine special buttons as well. You can have a sound played on the paste operation for successful operations, enable the tray icon, and make the program run with Windows.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that PureText+ is a pretty practical application you can use as a powerful clipboard enhancer. The paste tool can be configured so you get the option to paste both formatted and plain text, thus deserving at least a try overall.