1 How to Paste Without Formatting From a Document to an Email2 How to Paste Without Formatting in Word and Microsoft Office3 How to Copy Text Without Formatting Using a Text Editor4 How to Clear Formatting in Word and Remove a Horizontal Line
Unfortunately, however, that is often hampered by the formatting of the text’s source. When pasting from an article, for example, the pasted text may retain any headings, italics, and more. Today we’re going to show you how to paste without formatting so you can keep your workflow optimized. Paste without formatting / paste as plain text There are several tricks you can use to paste without formatting – but unfortunately not every application honors all of them. As a result, you may want to use a mixture of the methods shown below or use the third-party tool highlighted later on. Without further ado, here’s how to paste without formatting in Word, Google Docs, or any other application:
How to Paste Without Formatting From a Document to an Email
How to Paste Without Formatting in Word and Microsoft Office
How to Copy Text Without Formatting Using a Text Editor
How to Clear Formatting in Word and Remove a Horizontal Line
That’s all there is to it. You know how how to paste without formatting in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Chrome, and any other application that takes your fancy. If you already pasted content into Word with formatting, however, you may want to follow our guide on how to remove or clear formatting to get rid of it. While you’re there why not learn how to remove those pesky horizontal lines that appear when using three dashes? If you want to keep your formatting when pasting it into an email, you can do so by using the usual Ctrl + V instead.
So, how do you copy and paste without formatting in Word? We’ll show you a few methods below: – Keep source formatting: The text remains as you copied it, with any bold, italic, heading, and other formatting in place. You can press K after opening the tooltip to select this quickly. – Merge formatting: The text you paste will match the font of your document, but keep core formattings such as bold, italics, and bullet points. You can press M after opening the menu to access this quickly. – Keep text only: Paste without any formatting. This will be plaintext with no bullet points, bold or source font. Press T to access this quickly.
Pressing this shortcut doesn’t paste into the document immediately, but instead opens the Paste Special menu, where you need to click “Unformatted Text”, and then press “OK”.
First, click the “File” button in the top-right of your ribbon.
You’ll probably also want to untick “Play a sound” and tick “Automatically run PureText when Windows starts”. Press “OK” when you’re done.
