Unfortunately, when Word pastes paragraphs of HTML which doesn’t include a font or font size, it assumes it must be Times New Roman 12 pt, even if that has nothing to do with your document. Then when a word processor pastes it in, because there’s no font or font size, it should follow the document’s existing font and font size - which is exactly what Google Docs, Word online, and Apple Pages all do. but intentionally does not include a font or font size (that’s the original “magic”). Why does Word need a special Paste shortcut?īut seriously, Pastemagic copies its output onto the clipboard in HTML format, which includes desired styles like bold, italics, etc. Sanitizing HTML like this can be particularly useful when copying from Word, which is notorious for injecting mountains of potentially problematic HTML into the clipboard. Pastemagic also converts all sequences of whitespace characters (including non-breaking spaces and invisible spaces) to a single standard space. Yup - Pastemagic removes all extraneous tags and all CSS styling, and guarantees output will consist only of text with p (paragraph), a (link), b (bold), i (italics), s (strikethru), sup (superscript), sub (subscript) tags, and the list tags ul (bulleted list), ol (numbered list), and li (list item). when copying from Word into a CMS (content management system)? It defaults to just italics and strikethru (since those are often part of a text’s meaning), but also gives you choices on links, bold/headings, lists, and superscript/subscript. Pastemagic allows you to choose the formatting you want to keep. “Paste without formatting” removes all formatting, including formatting that might be important to keep - like italics or links. Remove text formatting How is “remove text formatting” different from the “paste without formatting” command many word processors have? Ugh!īut then he realized you could build a webpage to automate all of it, and voilà - Pastemagic was born. Pastemagic’s creator was putting together a research paper, assembling content from various sources (web pages, PDF’s, book scans online) and constantly getting super-frustrated with having to constantly fix formatting, delete linebreaks, and manually type out text.
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