'Clear Paragraph Style' and 'Clear Selection Style'

In an old archived topic, someone wrote:
quote:
In DWMX, you could select text in the design view and in the
"HTML Styles" window (which no longer exists in MX 2004) all you
had to do was click "Clear Selection Style" and all HTML formatting
(paragraph tags, font faces, colours, bold, italics etc) would be
removed. This was marvellous for reformatting tag
based text with CSS. MX 2004 claims to be a CSS machine, but it
seems to lack this very important feature which helps to re-inforce
the use of CSS over font tags.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=189&threadid=714513&arc tab=arc
I absolutely agree, and none of the alternative methods
people suggested in that thread matched this lost feature for speed
and ease of use.
I've not seen a replacement for these commands in Dreamweaver
8 either (although I've often wished for one). Does anyone know of
a hidden feature that exists in version 8 for removing all the HTML
formatting in one fell swoop?

I count 4 steps.
1. Copy the entire line
2. Paste into notepad
3. Copy the entire line
4. Paste into DW
That does it nicely no matter how much presentational markup
there is.
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>
quote:
I think what the O/P is wanting is a quick and easy method to
remove
> all of
> those presentational tags.
>
> Thanks Gary ? spot on! I'll use the term 'presentational
markup' rather
> than
> 'HTML styles' from now on. (Excuse my ignorance, but
what's an 'OP'?
> Should I
> like being called such a thing? :)
>
>
quote:
Murray: ? but you just cannot create predefined "HTML STYLES"
any
> longer.
> It's no great loss....
>
> Agreed! Okay, we've established that no one's lamenting
the loss of 'HTML
> styles' in the sense of a style sheet that stores HTML
presentational
> markup.
>
>
quote:
And if "HTML STYLES" were not used in the first place, then
even having
> that feature available now wouldn't help OP, if your
interpretation is
> correct.
>
> Perhaps you are misinterpreting what those commands did.
'Clear Paragraph
> Style' was the equivalent of applying a predefined 'HTML
style' with no
> presentational markup ? making it as far as I know, the
quickest, easiest
> way
> to strip all presentational markup out of your HTML
(irrespective of
> whether
> the markup originated through the use of 'HTML styles').
This could have
> very
> easily been replaced by a stand-alone command.
>
>
quote:
There are certainly quick and easy ways to remove many of
them.
> Okay then, here's the test. How many steps does it take
you to clean up
> the
> following paragraph?
>
> The
> quick
brown fox
jumps over the
 color="#FF0000">lazy
dog
>
> I count 10 steps if you select the entire paragraph and
use nothing but
> the
> Properties panel and/or Text menu. Perhaps you can beat
my attempt. If I
> use
> the 'Clean Up HTML' command, it takes me about 20
seconds to check for and
> type
> in all the individual tags I want removed, then I still
have to manually
> fix
> the alignment. Do you know of a quicker, easier way?
>

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