Paste Plain Text on Mac
Text copied from websites, Word documents, and emails carries rich formatting — fonts, colors, links, and styles that mess up your document. TextStow strips formatting and gives you clean plain text ready to paste anywhere.
Copied Text Carries Unwanted Formatting
Copy text from a website, Word document, Google Doc, or email and you get more than just text — fonts, font sizes, colors, hyperlinks, bold, italic, underline, and background colors paste into your document. This formatting pollution breaks consistent styling and forces you to manually clean up every paste operation.
Strip Formatting and Get Clean Plain Text
Copy any formatted text and process it with TextStow plain text tool from the menu bar. All rich text formatting is stripped away — fonts, colors, links, styles — leaving clean, unformatted plain text ready to paste into any document, editor, or form.
Perfect for Writing, Data Entry, and Code
Writers pasting from research notes into manuscripts need consistent formatting. Data entry workers copying from web forms into spreadsheets need clean text without links. Developers copying from documentation into code editors need plain text without HTML artifacts. TextStow handles all these cases.
Local Processing Keeps Content Private
Unlike web-based plain text converters, TextStow processes text entirely on your Mac. Contracts, research notes, client emails, and internal documents never leave your machine or touch a third-party server.
Works with Other Text Cleaning Tools
After stripping formatting, you can further clean text: remove extra spaces, fix line breaks, deduplicate lines, or convert case. All text tools work together in the same local workflow without opening an editor.
History Makes Plain Text Recoverable
Stripped formatting from text earlier but lost it? TextStow clipboard history keeps both the original formatted text and your plain text version searchable. Find any processed text, even hours later.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can TextStow strip formatting from copied text on Mac?▾
Yes. TextStow removes rich text formatting — fonts, colors, links, styles — and converts copied content to clean plain text.
Does it work with text copied from websites?▾
Yes. Text copied from websites, Word documents, Google Docs, and emails often carries rich formatting that TextStow strips automatically.
Is text processing local and private?▾
Yes. All formatting removal runs on your Mac with no data upload or network transfer.
Does plain text conversion work offline?▾
Yes. The plain text tool runs entirely offline on your Mac — no internet required.
Can I find plain text versions later in clipboard history?▾
Yes. Both original formatted text and your plain text version are saved in your searchable clipboard history.
What is the keyboard shortcut for paste plain text on Mac?▾
Many apps support Cmd+Shift+V for paste plain text. TextStow makes it even easier by stripping formatting before you paste, directly from the menu bar.
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Text copied from websites, Word documents, and emails carries rich formatting — fonts, colors, links, and styles that mess up your document. TextStow strips formatting and gives you clean plain text ready to paste anywhere.
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