WordService - Another Free Utility from Devon Technologies

Devon Technologies charges a pretty penny for their signature app, Devon Think with a standard license going for $99 and a pro license for $199. Still, the app is popular and has been around for a while. Devon also makes and gives away a suite of free utilities, like Xmenu, Neo Network Utility, Easy Find and others. One little known addition to their give aways is WordService, a collection of text manipulations made available through the services menu in any Mac app with text capability. Devon describes WordService thusly, "provides a large number of commands for working with selected text. Extend your favorite word processor, email app, or web browser e.g. with functions for reformatting text paragraphs, cleaning up tabs, quotes, or line endings. Remove unwanted text parts, sort lines or paragraphs, change case, and do much, much more with text."

Once installed, head to System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Text to turn on the elements you want to use. If you do any writing and text manipulation from the web or other sources, you will end up using this free addition to your toolbox more than you think you will.

You can download WordService directly from Devon Technologies.