Comment PASTE WITHOUT FORMATTING (Score 2) 567
Dude, paste-without-formatting is essential for anyone who spends a lot of time cutting and pasting between applications into compound documents.
There are so many whiney paste-related comments in this chain that it is time for one of my rarer than Haley's Comet posts to
Immediately (if not sooner), get thy focus to CNET.com, click on the downloads tab, and search on Pure Text.
Both Pure Text and Pure Text Plus are free and legal programs that turn your Windows-Key-V combination into a paste-without-format key.
(Be sure to decline the offer to install the Bing toolbar upon installation.)
I use Pure Text so much, it is one of the few programs I run in my start-up group.
My work here is done.