PlainTextClipboard is a simple utility that runs in your system tray and converts any rich (formatted) text on the clipboard to plain (unformatted) text with a single keyboard shortcut.

This is useful for those situations where you want to paste text and have it formatted like the text where you are pasting instead of keeping the original formatting.

To use PlainTextClipboard, simply copy some formatted text from any application (web browser, Word processor, email client, etc.), then press Ctrl+Alt+T.

Some applications provide an alternative paste command that lets you treat any pasted text as unformatted. For example, the Thunderbird mail client provides a Paste Without Formatting menu command. Microsoft Word provides a Paste Special menu command that brings up a list of options, one of which is to treat the pasted text as Unformatted Text. However, even when using applications that do provide such commands, it is almost always quicker to just press Ctrl+Alt+T to convert the text and then use the normal paste command.