Can't copy text without HTML

Is it possible to select text from a website and copy it without getting all the HTML link coding too? For instance, I look up an address on google maps and want to copy the text of the address into a word doc or email and get all this HTML code that I then have to delete. How do you copy text only?

Hi JJMack and anyone else having the same issue!
I have a solution for the problem: I went to Keyboard shortcuts and Menus, and strangely Edit/Copy had F3 associated with it. I use Photoshop for ten years now and I never changed that shortcut, not even recently. Strange, because I would remember that I changed that, it's not something you can mess with a couple of incidental clicks or key strokes.
So for anyone having the same issue: check your Keyboard shortcuts and if it is for some reason changed, set it back to Ctrl+C or anything you like and know.
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