Is there a way to only copy some text from a web page?

Factual Questions
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Is there a way to only copy some text from a web page? I mean, copy the text, without the formatting. I am using Firefox.

I was just typing an email to a friend, went to Amazon and copied the title of a book and pasted it into my email. It of course, pasted in a large bolded font. I just wanted the words. I opened up notepad and pasted it into there, since it doesn’t support a paste-with-format, and then copied it from there. But that is cumbersome.

Is there a key combination I’m not familiar with that will allow me to copy and/or paste just the text?

2

Open a Word/WordPerfect document.

In Word, go to Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text. Then copy the text from your Word doc into your email.

In WordPerfect, just right-click and hit “Paste Unformatted Text”, and re-copy, etc.

3

While this method is no less cumbersome than the OP’s original solution, if you use Outlook as your e-mail client with Word as the e-mail editor, you can do the same thing directly into the e-mail. If not, I’m done.

I never thought I’d be able to even partially answer a computer question in GQ!

4

There’s also a neat little freeware utility called PureText that will paste unformatted text in any app. You can choose the key combo to activate it; I use Windows+V (which I think is the default).

5

I love Scarlett67’s solution. I’m gonna get it for myself.

Before now, though, I have always used Notepad to accomplish this. I keep a link to Notepad on my Quicklaunch bar and just open up a blank doc, paste into that, then copy/paste from it.

6

There’s a Firefox plugin, copy plain text, that does that as well. Here’s the link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/134