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When you pull in text from other sources, here’s how you can do it

without dragging in all of its original formatting.

Sometimes you want to spice up your Google Docs document by copying and pasting a quote,

source code, headline or any other piece of text from the Web. There’s only one problem with that:

the material you paste in will bring along formatting from the original document. This can lead

to colors and fonts that don’t match your document, and it’s sometimes tricky to remove this

unwanted formatting using just the Docs toolbar. (Editing the HTML in its source code view is often

the only reliable alternative to get back your native document styling.)

This problem may also appear when you are copying content from one Docs document to another;

suppose you move the headline of your document into a table of contents document, but you don’t

want it to appear large and bold there. So wouldn’t it be nice if the text pasted uses your native

document styles, and nothing but?

Google offers a Remove Formatting button to the right side of its Docs editor toolbar—it’s the

letter “T” with a small red “x” next to it—but this feature doesn’t always work. But here’s a simple

alternative method: before pasting your clipboard into your document, paste the clipboard ...