microsoft excel
When I copy text from a cell in Excel and paste into a text document a line break is appended.
Example:
<a href="#">Some Link</a>
CTRL-C/CTRL-V
<a href="http://www.domain.com
">Some Link</a>
Is it possible to copy as plain text without additional line breaks added?
Use Microsoft Word as per your solution 2, it's probably already in your business users PC. The newline is indicated as ^l. See also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/95474/en-us
How your text gets copied in to Word depends on the formatting option chosen. In Word 2010, the default format option is HTML Format. There are four main options for how to copy text into Word. (Formatted Text (RTF), Unformatted Text, HTML Format, & Unformatted Unicode Text)
Pasting in with formatted text creates mini tables in Word. (The blue outlines.)
To get unformatted text in Word without the double quotes:
Alt + E, S)This also works to paste the results without quotes into another editor. Simply alter step 3 to paste into the other editor.
It would probably be faster however, to simply paste as normal and then use Replace to find and remove all double quotes.
Best Answer
Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V > Backspace is probably better than the accepted answer due to fewer key strokes. I know this doesn't really answer the question, it sounds like your question is really a feature request. As mentioned in the comments here is a macro solution as well:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/14695836/145173
Sounds like too much work to me to avoid a backspace key stroke. If it's large grabs and pulls, I would just suggest using Notepad++'s advanced find/replace and exploit the
\n\r\tcharacters that are the real text appended to the copy/paste and replace them with nothing.