How to get rid of text attributes?

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    Mats> I think that this problem is similar to when you copy from a word
    Mats> processor or spreadsheet and when you paste it into some other
    Mats> tool you only want to get the text and nothing else.

I think this is a good analogy, though I think in the word processor/
spreadsheet case there might also be a couple different things you can paste
from the clipboard.  If you're pasting from Excel into Word, for instance,
you might want to insert a small spreadsheet in your Word doc.  When pasting
into, say, Notepad, you might want just the text values from the cells.  (I
guess this is the paste vs paste special distinction you referred to.)

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