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Small Things Sorted

Remove formatting

Fonts, colours and invisible characters out – plain text stays.

Just paste – fonts, colours and links stay behind in the clipboard.

What you type is processed in your browser and never sent to us.

How to do it

  1. Paste the text

    Straight from Word, a PDF or a website – the formatting is dropped as you paste.

  2. Choose how far to go

    Three switches are on and tidy up quietly. The other three change the wording, so they are yours to decide.

  3. Copy the result

    One click puts the plain text on the clipboard.

What this is for

Text from another source carries more than you can see: typeface, size, colours and links. Pasted into an email, a content system or a spreadsheet, all of it tears the layout open – and the hunt for the “paste as plain text” command starts again.

The worse half is the part you cannot see. Plain text still carries non-breaking and narrow spaces, soft hyphens and zero-width characters. They survive every “paste as plain text”, look like nothing at all – and later make a search come up empty or a line wrap in the wrong place. This tool counts them and tells you how many there were.

Common questions

Because a text field cannot hold formatting in the first place – bold and typeface are left behind automatically. The tool's own work shows on the right instead: that is where the characters disappear that survive a paste.

The non-breaking space, for one: it looks like an ordinary space but is not, so searching for the phrase finds nothing. Then the soft hyphen that comes along when you copy out of a PDF and sits in the middle of a word, and characters with no width at all. The tool reports how many it changed.

Because they change the wording rather than just tidying up. Simplifying typography turns curly quotes straight, which is a loss in running text. Joining line breaks is meant for text copied out of a PDF and spots a wrap by line length, so addresses and lists are left alone – but keep poetry and source code away from it.

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