
Getting Started
TextSoap is a powerful text transformation tool. With it, you can remove extraneous characters, rewrap text, or perform one of more than 80 different actions (not including your own) with a single click. You can apply TextSoap to any type of text document that might normally require tedious finding and replacing. TextSoap is often applied on E-mail text but is not restricted to them.

A common working environment of TextSoap consists of the Clipboard Text and the Cleaner list.
TextSoap also enables you to integrate any text document directly into the application itself or to use TextSoap as an integrated plug-in of various supported applications.
There are three basic steps to using TextSoap:
- Select the text to clean
- Apply Cleaner
- Replace text
TextSoap offers a number of integration options that are designed to allow you to seamlessly apply its cleaners without disrupting your workflow. They are listed (in no particular order):
Option 1: Application
The following steps describe one way of using TextSoap, these steps will work on almost every type of text documentation.
- Copy text to clipboard from your application
- Launch TextSoap application
- Apply one or more cleaners via palette
- Quit TextSoap application
- Paste text back into your application.


It is also possible to start TextSoap and open an editable text document directly within TextSoap.

Option 2: Services Menu
Applications such as Apple Mail, BBEdit, Eudora, TextEdit, many Carbon and most Cocoa-based applications support OS X Services.
TextSoap can be activated directly within a supported application through the Services submenu, of that application, for example "TextEdit".
- Select text in application that supports Services (text must be editable).
- Choose TextSoap cleaner from Application -> Services -> TextSoap 5 submenu.

Option 3: Contextual Menu
Applications such as Entourage, Apple Mail, BBEdit, Eudora, TextEdit, and most Cocoa-based applications support contextual menus.
TextSoap can be started contextually within supported applications.
- Select text in application that supports Contextual Menus
- Control-Click to bring up contextual menu on selection
- Choose TextSoap cleaner from TextSoap submenu

Option 4: Application Plug-in (Deluxe)
Requires a TextSoap Deluxe license.
Special Plug-ins for BBEdit, TextWrangler and Eudora are provided. The functionality varies based on the application.
- Select text in application
- Apply the cleaner:
- BBEdit: Choose cleaner from palette
- Eudora: Choose menu from Edit -> Message Plug-ins submenu (or from toolbar if you configured it as such).
Whichever option you choose, the TextSoap helper tool applies the specified cleaner to your text.