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The best PowerToys for working with text and files

Posted on September 30, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

WINDOWS 11

By Mary Branscombe

A lot of the handy little extras in Microsoft PowerToys make life easier for managing files and coaxing text into the format you want.

The clipboard for copying and pasting between applications has been around as long as Windows with few improvements. The basic clipboard manager introduced in Windows 10 (the October 2018 update) has far fewer features than third-party tools like 1Clipboard or (my favorite) ClipMate, which can strip complex formatting and special characters, change case, or combine multiple clips.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.40.0, 2024-09-30).

Windows 11 Advanced Paste, File Explorer add-ons, File Locksmith, Newsletters, Peek, PowerRename, PowerToys, Quick Accent, Text Extractor, Windows

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