Cleaning Text, remove formatting

Sometimes text has markup on it that we can’t see in programs like MS Word, but it affects the letters by adding other styling like bullet points, bold face, size, stroke etc…

The way to avoid having formatting that you can’t directly see or edit is to paste the text into a program that is a very simple text editor, like MS notepad. Then after you copy it back out of notepad, it has it’s formatting removed. This is because notepad doesn’t support such formatting and the result is just the text which you can now format without worrying that is is being otherwise influenced.