How to Use the Paste Format Cleaner
The Paste Format Cleaner strips out the HTML tags, invisible special whitespace characters, and escaped symbols (like ) that tag along when you copy text out of a Word document or a webpage, leaving only clean plain text behind.
Paste your copied content into the box and the tool removes every tag (<p>, <span>, and so on), converts HTML entities like and & back into their original characters, and cleans up invisible line breaks and whitespace. Repeated spaces and excessive line breaks are also tidied up automatically.
It's useful whenever you want to avoid broken formatting or stray symbols showing up after pasting text into a notes app, forum post, or email body. The output is clean plain text that won't carry any trace of the original source's formatting into wherever you paste it next.
Frequently Asked Questions
Depending on the source, HTML tags and invisible characters like non-breaking spaces can remain in the text. This tool cleans up that residue.
This tool only removes text-based tags and special characters. Non-text elements like images or tables aren't part of a plain text field to begin with.