My problem: I copy something from a webpage or Illustrator, then paste it into an email or another Illustrator document and the styles are carried over from the original doc when I just want the text to conform to the format of the new document.
Is there a way to force OSX to copy and paste to only read the the plaintext of my selection?
Best Answer
Usually, OS X applications allow you to paste without style using ⇧⌥⌘V. This is not necessarily supported everywhere though.
If you simply want to get plain text from whatever was in the clipboard, and then put it in the clipboard again, you could for example run the following command from a Terminal:
This will get rid of rich text formatting. You could probably wrap this in a Service using Automator.app to have it accessible via keyboard shortcut.