Copying from Word, a web page, a PDF or an email often drags along fonts, colours, odd spaces, invisible characters and lines broken in the middle of sentences. Paste it here and get clean plain text you can drop into any document, form, website or chat. Choose what to fix: spaces, blank lines, hidden characters, curly quotes and dashes, broken PDF lines, bullets and numbering, emoji, or make it one line.
loading toolHow to paste as plain text
- Paste your text into the box (or press Paste from clipboard).
- Tick the clean-ups you want.
- Copy the clean plain text, or download it as a .txt file.
Good to know
- Use “Straight quotes and dashes” before pasting text into code, spreadsheets or forms that reject curly quotes.
Questions
Is there a keyboard shortcut to paste without formatting?
Yes: Ctrl + Shift + V in most Windows and Linux apps and browsers, and Cmd + Shift + Option + V on a Mac (Cmd + Shift + V in some apps). This tool goes further by also fixing spaces, line breaks and hidden characters.
What does “Join broken lines” do?
Text copied from PDFs and emails is often split into short lines. This joins lines back into paragraphs, keeps blank lines between paragraphs, and re-joins words that were split with a hyphen at the end of a line.
Does my text go to a server?
No. It is cleaned inside your browser and never uploaded.
Is my data private?
Yes. Everything happens inside your own browser: nothing you type or choose is uploaded to us or anyone else.
Is it free?
Completely free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how many times you use it. Light ads keep the site running.
