Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 2, 2012 at 11:49 AM

Franz Grieser wrote:
>b) clipboard enhancing - e.g. Ditto

My main use of clipboard extenders is a) cleaning up copied text from PDFs before pasting into CT, and b) as a back-up service, should I lose stuff that I may have copied before.

For a) I use NoteTab Light (free): SHIFT+CTRL+P activates the pasteboard, which you can keep activated (I created a dedicated text file Clipboard.txt for it that is always open), CTRL+C copies and pastes the content, CTRL+A selects all, and CTRL+J joins the broken lines that are adjacent only - which is important to preserve the original paragraph structure. Then CTRL+A, CTRL+C and CTRL+V to paste it into CT (or anywhere else). It may sound like a lot of steps but it’s fairly quick. There is an additional option of “Modify > Spaces > Single Space” to remove extra spaces between words (and there are more text cleaning options). Not bad for a free software.

I bought ClipCache Pro originally for the above purpose but it turned out it had some interference with CT, only pasting the letter “v” for some reason with its QuickPaste option. Also, it joins all the lines even between paragraphs, which is no good. So I use it for purpose b) now.