21st May 2002
I copy text frequently: from the Web, e-mail messages, or other rich-text documents. Sometimes I just want to keep the text - not all its fancy-schmancy formatting. So here's a workaround for when you're dealing with formatted text: after copying, open up Notepad and 'Paste' the text in there. From there, you may save the text as a new file, or 'Copy' it again to the clipboard and paste it in another document. All the formatting will have been stripped from it at that point. Is "Text Document" not descriptive enough for you? Would you rather refer to a TXT file as a "Shiny Happy Text Thing"? Open the Windows Explorer, click 'View,' then 'Folder Options,' select the 'File Types' tab, then look for whatever file type you'd like to change. When you've found one, select it and click the 'Edit' button. At that point, you can put just about whatever it is your little heart desires in the 'Description of type' field.