Paste · Clean · Copy
Strip the mess from any block of
text in one click.
A no-fuss, browser-only tool. Nothing you paste leaves your device — pick an action below, and a clean version replaces the original instantly.
Ever pasted a paragraph into the iPhone Notes app and watched it keep the bold headings, colored links, and bullet styling from the website you copied it from? Notes preserves that hidden formatting instead of flattening it — so what should be plain text arrives dressed in someone else's stylesheet. Clean-Text Formatter does the opposite: it strips every trace of that baggage and hands you raw, unstyled plain text, the way Notepad always has.
Jump to a specific tool
Need just one thing cleaned?
Each focused tool does a single job — ideal when you already know exactly what to strip.
Remove HTML Tags
Strip every tag and decode entities to get clean plain text.
Open the tool → Whitespace · LinesRemove Extra Spaces & Blank Lines
Collapse double spaces, tabs, and stacked blank lines in one pass.
Open the tool → Markdown · DocsConvert Markdown to Plain Text
Drop #, **bold**, links, lists, and code fences, keep the words.
Open the tool → Links · URLsExtract All URLs From Text
Pull every http and www address into a clean, one-per-line list.
Open the tool →This tool is free and runs entirely in your browser. If it saved you some time, a coffee keeps it ad-light and maintained.
Resources & FAQ
How to Remove Line Breaks Online
To remove line breaks online, paste your text into the box above and press Strip Line Breaks (or Full Clean to do everything at once). Text that has been chopped into dozens of short lines — the kind you get from copied PDFs, code comments, or plain-text emails — is merged back into smooth, flowing paragraphs in an instant. There is nothing to install and no sign-up, and the cleanup happens entirely in your browser, so the text you paste is never uploaded. It is the quickest way to remove line breaks online and get tidy, paste-ready text.
How to Strip Formatting from Copied Text
When you copy text from a website, a PDF, or an email, invisible formatting usually tags along — fonts, colours, hyperlinks, background shading, and hidden control characters that break the moment you paste them somewhere new. To strip formatting from copied text, drop it into the tool above and run Full Clean (or Strip HTML Tags for content copied from a web page).
cleanplaintext.com peels away the styling, markup, and smart-quote clutter and hands back clean, raw plain text — the same plain characters that look identical everywhere you paste them. No more mismatched fonts, stray highlight colours, or links carried over from the original source.
How to Remove Line Breaks in Word and Excel
Prefer to stay inside Microsoft Office? Both Word and Excel can remove line breaks with a built-in feature — here is the short version for each.
Word Remove line breaks in Microsoft Word
- Open Find and Replace with
Ctrl + H. - In Find what type
^p(the code for a paragraph break), leave Replace with empty or add a single space, then choose Replace All. Use^lfor manual line breaks made with Shift + Enter.
Excel Remove line breaks in Microsoft Excel
- In a blank cell, enter
=CLEAN(A1)to strip line breaks and other non-printing characters from cell A1. - For more control, use
=SUBSTITUTE(A1, CHAR(10), " ")to swap each line break for a space, then copy the result and paste it back as values.
The one-click alternative: the Office methods work, but they mean opening menus or memorising formulas for every document. For a quick one-off, pasting your text into the tool above and clicking once is usually far faster — and it works the same whether the text came from Word, Excel, a browser, or anywhere else.
See it in context
Where a plain-text pass actually saves you
Pasting between apps quietly drags hidden formatting along with it — and the damage shows up later, in your CMS, your spreadsheets, your inbox, and your notes. Each use case walks through exactly what goes wrong and how a single clean pass fixes it.
Browse the use cases →