# WordService — hidden gem for the mac

**URL:** https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020
**Category:** Resources
**Created:** [July 28, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020 "2022-07-28T04:25:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![rivet](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/rivet/32/1727_2.png) [@rivet](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/rivet)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020/1 "2022-07-28T04:25:05Z")

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I stumbled on this little gem;

WordService provides a large number of commands for working with selected text:

- Reformat text paragraphs
- Clean up tabs, quotes, line endings
- Remove unwanted text parts
- Sort lines or paragraphs
- Change case
- **Shift paragraphs right or left. 🤪🙏🏼**
- Obscure using Rotate 13
- Insert date, time, or file path
- Get text statistics

[App Store](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/wordservice/id899972312?mt=12)

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### Author: ![Bobino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/bobino/32/194_2.png) [@Bobino](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Bobino)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020/2 "2022-08-01T03:47:18Z")

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@rivet This is great! Do you know any way to preserve paragraph selection when shifting paragraphs right or left? Sometimes I want to indent more than one level, and it seems I need to select the text again.

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### Author: ![rivet](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/rivet/32/1727_2.png) [@rivet](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/rivet)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020/3 "2022-08-01T20:13:57Z")

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unfortunately no.

I have requested the same feature to be added to the MonkeyBread plugin 🤞🏽

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### Author: ![jwilling](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/jwilling/32/256_2.png) [@jwilling](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/jwilling)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020/4 "2022-08-19T16:41:48Z")

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Wow, great! I'm gonna try this for a while and see if I like it better than copying and cleaning up my code in an external editor. Thanks so much for sharing.

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### Author: ![Malcolm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/malcolm/32/196_2.png) [@Malcolm](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Malcolm)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/wordservice-hidden-gem-for-the-mac/3020/5 "2022-12-22T22:18:34Z")

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I'm very late to this thread but I want to add a link to another source of services: [Markdown Service Tools - BrettTerpstra.com](https://brettterpstra.com/projects/markdown-service-tools)

These services are focussed on formatting text with Markdown syntax but they make provide some inspiration for developing your own services.