Powerful and customisable formatting clearance.
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Text Cleaner is essentially a much more sophisticated version of the ‘clear formatting’ command which allows the user to preserve things like italics and bold. It also removes line breaks, multiple spaces and other annoying features often present in text copied from elsewhere. This leaves headings and paragraphs that conform to the document’s styles.

**Important**

1. Paragraph-level attributes such as line spacing and indent are only cleared when entire paragraphs are selected.

2. Text Cleaner replaces line breaks with spaces. This splits words in half if they contain a line break mid-word. This is unavoidable.

3. Line breaks in copied text are often actually paragraph breaks, so be sure to select this option if line breaks remain after cleaning.

4. The options to remove various annoyances are based on complicated scripting. It is recommended that the user disables these when they are not needed to make the add-on run more efficiently.

5. Removing links also removes underlining in any selected text, even if that text is not a link. This is an idiosyncrasy of Google App Scripts. This is why Text Cleaner will not allow you to select both ‘preserve underling’ and ‘remove links’.

6. Text Cleaner does not remove highlighting/background colour from list bullets or numbers. This has to be done manually where it exists.
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Robert Ford
May 28, 2026
Stopped working for my up to date Mac's OS... Very handy until recently.
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Heather Marshall
June 3, 2026
was working amazingly, stopped working now
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Ienjelicdelites
May 29, 2026
This was working amazingly so but then today when I tried to use it and nothing. And by nothing I mean none of the options even come up anymore a;; that comes up in the menu is help. I did the usual spiel - clear cache, restarted the laptop, uninstalled & reinstalled, etc., and still nothing. I'm not sure why it just started to act up like this. If it gets fixed I will change this rating to a five star because it does what it needs to do.
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That Damn Cat
May 29, 2026
It worked well until Rhino became obsolete. Now its dead until the developer fixes it, at least that's what I've been told.
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Ry VASCII
May 28, 2026
Does not work anymore
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Massimo D'Alessandro
June 8, 2026
This was working a treat ..... how sad it now does not work anymore :-(
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Laura Rose Dauffenbach
March 16, 2025
I can see how some features would be useful, however, it doesn't work for the reason I added this on to my doc extensions: remove links. I wanted to be able to remove all of the hyperlinks in my doc...but it didn't work. When I tried to seek support, the help link took me to an unsecure shopping website. Then, the developers website that was "forbidden." Creepy. I will immediately remove this add-on and try to find something else to do what I need...remove multiple links. Plus, the permissions are ridiculous.
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Erik M
March 3, 2025
I only needed this to remove all the URL/links on my google docs page. I selected all the text in my doc and used the extension's "Remove links and underling" option, it seemed to be doing something, but all the links remained. Also attempted to report the issue via the extensions "report issue" button, it opened a new page seemingly allow me to report, but it just got stuck there with nothing on the screen. Bye.
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Joanne Bucknall
June 14, 2024
Ok, not gonna lie it wasn't working for me either at first. Kept glitching big time. But never fear friends, I found a solution. Follow this order (even though it feels cumbersome) and you should have 'Text Cleaning' success :) 1. Select text (for cleaning), ctrl-X (cut) THEN 2. Ctrl+option+shift V To paste back into google doc 3. Select Format, Clear all Formatting Then 4. Select - Extensions, Clean TEXT Wait patiently and ‘wella’! it will remove ALL formatting! MUST be done in this order.. Bit cumbersome but it works team :)
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Amy Asher
September 24, 2025
Hasn't worked forme to clean up line breaks
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