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Paste-from-Word Cleaner

Strip the formatting soup that rides along when you paste out of Word or Google Docs, keeping only real paragraphs and clean text.

A paste-from-Word cleaner removes the styles, spans and hidden markup that word processors attach to copied text, leaving plain, portable prose.


⚙ Keep / repair

Paste here - Ctrl/Cmd+V

Paste straight from Word, Docs, or a PDF - we strip the junk and keep your real paragraphs. Or try an example:

Nothing pasted yet

0 words · 0 chars · 0 paragraphs

What we removed -
  • Paste something to see what gets cleaned.

🔒 Runs entirely in your browser - open DevTools → Network and you'll see zero requests. Nothing is uploaded.

No upload No signup Works offline Network requests this session: 0

The short version


How to use it

  1. Paste content copied from Word or Google Docs.
  2. Let the cleaner drop styling and hidden markup.
  3. Copy clean paragraphs ready for anywhere.

Private by design

There is no server and no upload. Everything runs with plain JavaScript on your device, so you can safely work with confidential or unpublished text. Open your browser's DevTools Network tab while you use it and you'll see zero requests - and it keeps working with your connection turned off.

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In the margin

Frequently asked questions

Why does text pasted from Word look weird? +

Word and Google Docs attach hidden styling, smart quotes, non-breaking spaces and markup to whatever you copy. Pasted elsewhere, that baggage shows up as odd spacing and characters. This cleaner strips it back to plain text.

Does it keep paragraph breaks? +

Yes - real paragraph breaks are preserved while the styling, extra whitespace and hidden characters around them are removed.

Is my text uploaded or stored anywhere? +

No. Everything runs in your browser with plain JavaScript - your text is never uploaded, stored, or logged. Open your browser’s DevTools Network tab while you use it and you’ll see zero requests. The tool also works offline.

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Margin note

Every tool here runs 100% in your browser. Open DevTools → Network while you use one and you'll see zero requests - your text never leaves your device. Prefer the deep dives? Read the writing on Penluma.