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How do you paste without line breaks in Google Docs?
To remove line breaks, I’d recommend the add-on for Docs called Text Cleaner. You can get it by going to Add-ons (in the tool bar) > Get add-ons and then searching for it by name. Once you find it, just press the blue Free button to add it to Docs.
How can I paste text in a Google Doc without losing the formatting of the original text?
Follow the below information.
- Select the text you want to copy and press the Ctrl + C keyboard shortcut from your keyboard.
- Now, press the Ctrl + Shift + V keyboard shortcut from your keyboard to paste in Google Docs without formatting or you can also right-click and select the “Paste without Formatting option”.
How to copy and paste text into Google Docs?
If you are using Chrome, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the unformatted version of the copied text into Google Docs (or any other web page). One way to do it is to keep and edit documents as plain text files without leaving Google Drive.
Is it possible to make text ” plain ” in Google Docs?
There’s a menu item ‘Clear formatting’ in Google Docs, and this clears things like font choices and font sizes. But links remain links, and I’m not sure that it’s as basic a format as ‘Plain’ text created in TextEdit. Is it possible to make text “Plain” in Google Docs? It sounds much faster to just copy to notepad, then paste back in.
Can you use Google docs instead of TextWrangler?
I’d like to try using Google Docs instead of TextEdit and copy-paste text from Google Docs directly into TextWrangler. There’s a menu item ‘Clear formatting’ in Google Docs, and this clears things like font choices and font sizes. But links remain links, and I’m not sure that it’s as basic a format as ‘Plain’ text created in TextEdit.
Is there program to clear formatting in Google Docs?
Presuming you’re on Windows, there’s a program called Puretext that clears formatting from whatever you have cached in the clipboard. Life Hacker has an article about Google Drive extensions that mentions Drive Notepad, which claims to do plain text editing in Google Drive.