
This doesn’t work in all applications - hence the Notepad trick - but it’s convenient when it does. For example, had I pasted back into Word using SHIFT+CTRL+V, only the text would be pasted and the formatting removed. Bonus TipĪnother way to remove formatting? Hold down SHIFT when pasting. Copy/pasting out of a program like Microsoft Word into Notepad, and then copy/pasting back into Word is a quick and dirty way to remove all formatting from any document. Since Notepad knows nothing of formatting, only the text is copied. You can now select what you like in Notepad, copy it to the clipboard, and paste it into another application. Text Cleaner is essentially a much more sophisticated version of the ‘clear formatting’ command which allows the user to preserve things like italics and bold. Non-Standard Microsoft Word punctuation will be replaced where possible (slanting. What that means is that when you paste formatted text into Notepad, all the formatting is ignored and you’re left with only the text. This page attempts to clean text down to a standard simple ASCII format. Notepad is a plain text editor, which means it doesn’t support all that fancy formatting. (If you want to clean up Word HTML, rather than just create plain text, I suggest that you use HTML Tidy with the clean and Word 2000 boxes checked.).
#CLEAR FORMATTING TEXT CLEANER WINDOWS#
Update: To make it work by double-clicking on the file in Windows Explorer, put the above in a batch file as such (call the file, say, C:\OpenTxt. That's lower-case L in ' -ltext ' by the way. Right-click in the empty Notepad document, and click on Paste. Run it from the command-line as such: notepad++ -ltext filename Or from the menu: Language, N, Normal Text.

Select that overly-formatted text, right-click on it, and click on Copy to copy it to the system clipboard. Lots of bold and italics, different font sizes, different font colors, I’m sure you know what I mean. The formatting will be removed from the selected text, and it will be returned to its. Look for the Clear All Formatting button (in the Font section) and click on it. Click on the Home tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.

It’s not uncommon to run across some text - perhaps in a document, perhaps on a webpage - that has an excess of … well, let’s just call it “personality”. Then select the text that you want to remove the formatting from. NOTE: if you use a customized theme or change your theme, you have to repeat the same steps above on the new theme.Notepad is another one of those underappreciated gems in Windows. This will make all plain text with a white background, while other files with blackish color. I use Obsidian theme, and I changed the background color from blackish color to white.

With the Home tab slected, click on Select then Select All. Click inside the document and select all of the content. Under Global Styles: Global override, set the Colour Style, Font Style that you want. To convert a Word file to HTML using Word Clear Formatting, Open the file in Word.Go to Settings and choose Style Configurator.Thus, these files will always opened in Notepad++ as plain text with no formatting. The only thing I did was overriding the format style under the Style Configurator, and used Global override settings to override the style settings on any file type that is not assigned to the Notepad++ along with text files. IF so, then I think I will tell you what I did and it might be what you need. I think you are like me, prefer to view txt files as a plain text even if they have some codes in them.
