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 Remove Formatting from Text – Clean Rich Text

Clean rich text in seconds: remove unwanted formatting from Word, Google Docs, email, and HTML content. Choose to keep line breaks, use a single enter between blocks, or merge everything into one line.

⚙️ Cleaning options
⚙️ Output options
Output format
↩️ Line breaks (plain text)

Remove Formatting from Text & Clean Rich Text - Explanation & Examples

The Remove Formatting from Text tool lets you clean rich text and get consistent, plain output. It is ideal for text pasted from Word, Google Docs, Outlook and other email clients, CMS editors, and websites. You can paste rich text directly or paste raw HTML code and clean it the same way.

⭐ What this tool removes

  • Font styles such as family, size, color, and inline visual styling
  • Bold, italic, underline, and related text formatting tags
  • Links, lists, bullets, indentation, and media elements
  • Inline classes and HTML attributes
  • Emojis and special characters (optional)
  • Smart quotes, curly apostrophes, long dashes, and ellipsis characters (optional)
  • Extra spaces, tabs, and non-breaking spaces (optional)

⚙️ Cleaning options

All cleanup options are enabled by default so you get clean rich text immediately. You can disable any checkbox to keep specific content elements.

  • Font styles: strips visual text styling wrappers
  • Text formatting: removes bold, italic, underline, and similar emphasis tags
  • Links: removes anchor elements while keeping visible link text
  • Lists and indentation: flattens list formatting and bullet symbols
  • Inline attributes: removes classes, style attributes, and HTML attributes
  • Emojis and special characters: keeps text cleaner for exports and systems with strict character sets
  • Images and media: removes non-text embedded elements
  • Smart quotes and dashes: converts “curly quotes”, ‘smart apostrophes’, en/em dashes, and … to plain characters
  • Extra spaces: collapses double spaces and tabs and replaces non-breaking spaces

🧩 Output modes

  • Clean text with structure: keeps paragraphs, headings, and lists readable while formatting is stripped
  • Plain text: returns pure text with configurable line-break handling

↩️ Line break options

In plain text mode you control exactly how new lines are handled:

  • Keep line breaks and paragraph spacing: preserves the original paragraph layout, including blank lines between paragraphs
  • Single enter between blocks: every paragraph, heading, or list item becomes exactly one line, separated by a single line break
  • Remove line breaks: merges the entire text into one continuous line

🔎 How to use

  1. Choose the input type: Rich text (paste from Word, Docs, or a website) or HTML code.
  2. Paste your content into the input area, or click Load example to try the tool.
  3. Adjust the cleanup checkboxes as needed.
  4. Select your preferred output format and line-break handling.
  5. Copy the result or download it as .txt. The stats bar shows word and character counts before and after cleaning.

⭐ Example

Input (formatted):

<p style="font-family:Arial;color:#c00"><strong>Update:</strong> Visit <a href="https://example.com">our site</a> ✅</p>
<p>Next review: “March 2026”…</p>

Output (plain text, single enter between blocks):

Update: Visit our site
Next review: "March 2026"...

⚠️ Good to know

  • All cleaning runs locally in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
  • Use Clean text with structure when you want readable paragraphs for pasting into another editor.
  • Use Plain text with Remove line breaks when you need one single line, for example for spreadsheet cells or form fields.

This tool is also known as

  • remove formatting from text
  • strip rich text formatting
  • clean pasted text formatting
  • word to plain text converter
  • html formatting remover

Frequently Asked Questions

It cleans rich text by removing formatting like fonts, colors, bold, links, and lists, and returns clean, normalized text output.

Yes. Paste content copied from Word, Google Docs, Outlook, emails, CMS editors, or websites, and the tool cleans the rich text instantly.

Yes. In plain text mode you can choose to <strong>keep line breaks and paragraph spacing</strong>, use a <strong>single enter between blocks</strong>, or <strong>remove all line breaks</strong> to get one single line.

Yes. Switch the input mode to <strong>HTML code</strong> and paste your markup. The tool cleans it with the same options as rich text.

Yes. All cleaning checkboxes are selected by default for fast cleanup. You can disable any option to keep specific elements.

Anchor tags are removed while visible link text is preserved.

It flattens list formatting by removing bullets and list indentation from the output.

Yes. Enable the <strong>Emojis and special characters</strong> option to strip them from the result.

It converts curly quotes, smart apostrophes, en/em dashes, and ellipsis characters into plain straight quotes, hyphens, and dots.

The <strong>Extra spaces</strong> option collapses double spaces and tabs and converts non-breaking spaces (&amp;nbsp;) to normal spaces.

Yes. Choose <strong>Clean text with structure</strong> to keep paragraphs, headings, and lists readable while formatting is stripped.

Plain text mode strips all formatting and gives you full control over line breaks: keep them, reduce them to a single enter, or remove them entirely.

Yes. Use the <strong>Copy</strong> button or download the result as a <code>.txt</code> file. A stats bar shows word and character counts before and after cleaning.

No. All processing runs in your browser and your content remains local.

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