Remove Formatting
How to use
Strips fonts, colors, styles and other formatting from a Word document, leaving clean plain text you can paste anywhere without carrying over unwanted styling. Upload your DOCX file and download the cleaned version.
Select a Word document to strip formatting from
Styles, fonts and smart punctuation removed
- Stripping tracked changes and reviewer comments from a document before sending it externally
- Removing inconsistent fonts and styles copied in from multiple sources into one document
- Preparing clean text to paste into a new template without carrying over old formatting
- Sanitizing a document's edit history before it goes to a client or the public
Free and private. Everything runs on your own device, with no account and no uploads.
Use this tool to strip all formatting, styles, and tracked-change artifacts from a Word document, leaving behind clean plain content that is easy to paste elsewhere without carrying over odd fonts or leftover styles. It is particularly useful when copying text from a heavily formatted document into a plain editor or a new template. The cleanup happens directly in your browser without uploading the file.
No, the actual words and paragraph structure are preserved; only visual styling and metadata like comments are removed.
The cleaned result can be downloaded as a plain, unformatted document or plain text depending on your chosen output.
Curly quotes and apostrophes become straight ones, the single ellipsis character becomes three full stops, non-breaking spaces become ordinary spaces, spaces at the ends of lines are removed and, if you choose, runs of blank lines are collapsed. Those invisible characters are what usually break code, CSV imports and search when text is pasted out of Word.
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Upload the DOCX file
Select the Word document you want to clean up.
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Automatic formatting removal
The tool strips inline styles, comments, and tracked changes locally.
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Review the cleaned content
Confirm the text content is intact and free of formatting.
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Download the clean file
Save the formatting-free document to your device.
- ·Run this before Word Compare or metadata cleanup if you want to share a document that shows no trace of the editing process.
- ·Double-check the cleaned file for any accidentally removed structure, like intentional bold headings, before sending it out.
- ·Combine with the Word Metadata tool afterward to confirm no author or revision info remains.