Boxing Monkeys

David Hamel from Boxer Software just sent me an announcement of the release of their new clipboard text conversion tool called Text Monkey. I have been using David's advanced text editor Boxer since its DOS days. Boxer Editor for Windows is now a full-blown macro-enabled tool. On several occasions I have experienced that Hamel considers customer satisfaction a high value. Hey, he even speaks a little Dutch! Back to their latest offspring: Text Monkey.

Text Monkey is capable of just about 40 tasks, of which to my opinion the most useful and notable are that it
1. removes e-mail quoting prefixes, like >>>>>
2. converts HTML back to text by removing tags and converting symbol codes like > back to a >
3. eliminates leading, trailing, duplicate spaces
4. deletes empty lines, deletes lines containing or not containing certain text
5. indents text allowing you to specify which indentation character or string to use
6. strips out specified characters
7. replaces one text string with one other text string
8. calculates word and character occurrences
9. sorts the text by column

Text Monkey is available for download as a 10-day evaluation version. The current release is 1.0. There is a Lite version with limited capabilities that you may use for free. The professional version costs $29.99. Existing Boxer Editor users get a discount. BoxerSoftware accepts PayPal payments and provides electronic downloads as well as shipped versions.