I can't find where this application was discussed, so/but it's probably worth starting a new thread.
Someone [again, pardon the memory lapse] suggested using TextEdit in place of Word which requires "special pasting" of HTML text (eg, from online newspaper articles) in order to remove HTML tags and just get unformatted text.
A couple observations after having tried doing same and after having set Preferences (or so I thought):
TE doesn't provide pages with justified margins as does Word.
TE doesn't always eliminate HTML tags, so hotlinks seem to sneak through.
Cut text pasted into a new TE document overrides the Preferences set for a new document (eg, Preferences set for Verdana 12, but the article's Times 12 comes through).
Observations?
At this point the number of steps in getting an HTML text into a Desktop document is about the same for a Word document and a TextEdit document. Given the end result, the nod goes to Word ... unless I can radically reduced the number of steps it takes to produce a TE document.
Suggestions?
