When you move text into or out of a word processor, the words are usually fine but the invisible characters, curly punctuation, and extra blank lines cause subtle formatting glitches.
Clean Text for Word tidies those issues while leaving HTML alone, since you are not pasting markup.
How to use Clean Text for Word
- Paste the document text you are moving into or out of Word.
- Clean Text for Word removes invisible characters, straightens quotes and dashes, and collapses blank lines.
- Adjust any step if needed, then copy the tidied text.
Use cases
- Cleaning text before pasting it into a Word document.
- Removing stray blank lines from a copied draft.
- Straightening punctuation that a word processor inserted.
Good to know
Clean Text for Word keeps the invisible-character, quote, and blank-line cleanups on but leaves HTML stripping off, because document text rarely contains tags. This avoids touching anything that looks like markup while still fixing the spacing and punctuation problems that travel with word-processor text. Toggle steps to taste.
Frequently asked questions
Why is HTML stripping off by default here?
Because you are working with document text rather than web markup, so leaving tag stripping off avoids altering content that is not really HTML.
Does it remove the blank lines a paste can add?
Yes. Runs of blank lines are collapsed so the spacing between paragraphs looks consistent.
Will it change my curly quotes?
Yes. The straighten step converts curly quotes and long dashes to plain forms; switch it off to keep them.