Plain Text Converter Online ↪ OMGConvert ↩
Converting text to plain text helps remove unwanted formatting or prep text for code and notes. Paste or type below—HTML tags are stripped in the output—and use Copy or Download as .txt.
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What Is Plain Text?
Plain text keeps letters, numbers, and basic punctuation—without bold, italics, colors, or font styling. This page strips HTML angle-bracket tags from whatever you paste.
Paste from anywhere
Use content from Word, Google Docs, email, PDFs, or the web. The bottom box updates as you type so you can copy clean text or save a .txt file.
Tables & lists
When you paste rich text, structure like tables, bullets, and tabs often collapses to paragraph-style plain text—matching how the classic converter describes Word-to-plain behavior.
What Is Plain Text?
Plain text is text that contains only letters, numbers and basic punctuation like commas and periods. It does not include formatting such as bold, italics, underline, colors, or font styles.
How to use this plain text converter
Paste or type in the top box. The tool removes HTML tags (anything in angle brackets) and shows the result below. Use Copy or Download to take it elsewhere.
You can copy text from:
- Microsoft Word or Google Docs documents
- Emails from Outlook or Gmail
- Web articles and blog posts
- PDF files
Once your text is in the input box, the plain version appears in the output box. Click Download to save a .txt file or Copy to paste into another app.
FAQs
Does this tool work on a Mac and PC?
Yes. It works on Windows and Mac. All processing happens in your browser, so any device with a modern browser can use it.
What is the Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut?
On Windows, Ctrl+Shift+V pastes without carrying over formatting (plain paste). On Mac, try Command+Shift+Option+V or read this Apple support article.
Are numbers, bullets, and tabs removed from text pasted from Microsoft Word?
Yes, for many pasted sources, list styling, table layout, bullets, and tabs collapse when you work in plain text—only the raw text remains in paragraph-style blocks, similar to the original OMGConvert plain text tool description.
Can I use this with Word, Outlook, Google Docs, PDFs, etc.?
Absolutely. Copy from any of those sources, paste into the converter, then copy or download the plain result.
Does this tool store my text?
No. We do not save what you type. Everything runs locally without sending your content to our servers.
Our online text tools
Browse more converters and generators from the Text Tools menu above, or visit the OMGConvert home page for the full list.