We show you various ways you can Copy & Paste as Plain Text in Windows 11/10 without formatting. Use Keyboard shortcut, Clipboard History, etc.

Text formatting.… Windows used to have an editor with formatting functionality, an application called "WordPad" that was ejected from the operating system in 2024.

Using editors and syncing services that work with plain-text formatting, David Sparks can write almost anywhere, using almost any device. Here's his plain-text workflow.

Paste Plain Text Only without the formatting in Word. To make this the default setting, open Microsoft Word, and open an existing file or create a new file.

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only ...

PDF documents are great for ensuring that recipients see a document formatted the way it was intended, and for making it relatively difficult - but by no means impossible - to muck around with the ...

The two most recent versions of Microsoft's word processor let you paste plain text rather than formatted text and graphics when you press Ctrl-V or click the Paste button.

For some silly reason, OS X’s TextEdit app’s default format is rich text. If you prefer plain text, Defaults Write points out that you can easily set that as your default with a Terminal command.