I use a program called "Plain Clip" and assign a keystroke combination in 
Butler to execute the paste.  Plain Clip strips all the formatting.
On Aug 10, 2013, at 8:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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> how to strip HTLM from word doc on mac? [5 Updates]
>  how to strip HTLM from word doc on mac?
> SBD <[email protected]> Aug 09 10:19AM -0700  
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> I'm looking for a way to strip all codes (I want plain text) from things I 
> have copy/pasted into a word doc on my Mac. I understand this can be done 
> by using Notepad on PCs, but I'm not able to figure this out via my new 
> Mac. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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> Ted Burger <[email protected]> Aug 09 01:34PM -0400  
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> Simply use BBEdit to remove markup.
>  
> Thanks,
> Ted
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> On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:19 PM, SBD wrote:
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> David Kelly <[email protected]> Aug 09 12:48PM -0500  
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> 
> > I'm looking for a way to strip all codes (I want plain text) from things I 
> > have copy/pasted into a word doc on my Mac. I understand this can be done 
> > by using Notepad on PCs, but I'm not able to figure this out via my new 
> > Mac. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>  
> Don't know about Word but many applications have an Edit -> Paste And Match 
> Style function which strips styling from the clipboard's contents during 
> paste.
>  
> Or has already been suggested, copy into BBedit (or TextWrangler), then copy 
> from BBedit back into Word.
>  
> Oooh! I know! Open Terminal.app. Type "cat > file.txt". Paste. Type ^C 
> (control-C). Merge file.txt into your Word document. :-)
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> Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> Aug 09 10:54AM -0700  
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> >things I have copy/pasted into a word doc on my Mac. I understand
> >this can be done by using Notepad on PCs, but I'm not able to figure
> >this out via my new Mac. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>  
> The obvious answer on this list is: open the file with BBEdit 
> and use its abilities to strip markup.
>  
> You could also simply call "Save As..." in Word, and choose the 
> format "Plain Text".
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> HTH
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> Best Regards,
>  
> - Bruce
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> "TJ Luoma" <[email protected]> Aug 09 02:57PM -0400  
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> On 9 Aug 2013, at 13:19, SBD wrote:
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> > things I have copy/pasted into a word doc on my Mac.  I understand 
> > this can be done by using Notepad on PCs, but I'm not able
> > to figure this out via my new Mac.  Any suggestions?  Thanks!
>  
> There have been plenty of good suggestions made already, but I'll add 
> one specific to BBEdit:
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> 1. Download and install this to BBEdit's "Text Filters" folder:
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> https://github.com/tjluoma/bbedit/blob/master/Text-Filters/HTML-to-Plain-Text.sh
>  
> 2. Install lynx (if it isn't already)
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> http://code.google.com/p/rudix/wiki/lynx
>  
> And then you can use BBEdit's "Text Filter" feature to convert any HTML 
> document to plain text.
>  
> The advantage of using `lynx` instead of trying to create your own 
> solution is that it has been designed to deal with all sorts of 'edge 
> cases' of weird and/or badly written HTML.
>  
> TjL
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