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. 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.
Select Clear All Formatting in the upper-right corner of the Font group on the Home tab of the ribbon. Use your mouse to highlight only part of the text or select all the text in the document by selecting anywhere inside the document and pressing Ctrl + A to highlight all the text. Notepad is a plain text editor, which means it doesn’t support all that fancy formatting. Select the text from which you want to remove formatting in Word. Right-click in the empty Notepad document, and click on Paste. 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. 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”. Notepad is another one of those underappreciated gems in Windows.
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