Paste in the desired location with Control+Y (rather than command+v)Īgain, these alternate cut & paste commands remove all formatting and styling, and they also use an alternative clipboard so you will not rewrite anything in the primary clipboard.Highlight the text and hit Control+K to ‘cut’ without formatting (rather than command+c).2: Remove Formatting with the Alternate Cut & Paste CommandsĪlternate what now? Many don’t know this, but other than Command+C and Command+V there are an alternate set of cut and paste commands available in Mac OS X that also use an alternate clipboard, but also have the added benefit of stripping formatting from copied text. Thanks to and others for pointing out this modifier sequence on twitter and in the comments, and thanks to Rob for clarifying the function. Notice the difference from the normal Command+V paste trick, which would include the formatting. Paste the copied text and match current style by using Command+Option+Shift+V.It’s just a variation of the normal copy & paste trick: There’s a modifier command to change how paste works so that it “matches style”, which if you’re pasting into a plain text document or a new email composition, will removes all font styles and formatting in that pasting process, regardless of what is stored in the clipboard. So I would insert a Run AppleScript action as the first action, which will receive the selected text.1: Strip Styling & Formatting with a Special Paste & Match Style Command The bulk of the Automator workflow will then be scripted, which I predominantly do with AppleScript. So, your Automator service will take selected text, which can be from any application or limited to a specific application of your choice, such as Preview or some other PDF document viewer. When I copy a text from PDF I need to paste it to a word processor Therefore, I'm already limited by what I can assist you with, so I'm going to focus on using another application in this example. I, personally, don't, so I have no idea what Automator actions are supplied with it (if any), nor whether it is AppleScriptable or not. You've mentioned using Scrivener, but implicitly assumed that we all use it too.
So the method won't be too far from what you'll need to employ to achieve your outcome. You'll want to read and follow its instructions, which goes through a step-by-step example of how to take some selected text and change it's case to uppercase, or what not. Here's the documentation on how to make a systemwide service using Automator.
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