How to Launder Text

When you want to copy and paste some text, often the text has some formatting embedded with it. When you don't want that, you must launder the text — you must strip the text of its embedded formatting so you have nothing but pure, plain text. Here's how:

1. Copy the text.

2. Paste the text into Notepad. This a free program that comes with Windows. Notepad is a very simple program and only deals with plain text, so when you paste text into it, all the embedded formatting is automatically eliminated.

3. Copy the text you just pasted into Notepad.

4. Now paste that text where you want it.