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Pasting from Other Apps

Formtabulous detects where your pasted content came from and cleans it up automatically, so your message looks right without any manual work.

What gets cleaned

When you paste, Formtabulous handles:

  • Microsoft Word — removes its invisible formatting markup, conditional comments, and nested styling spans
  • Google Docs — strips internal document IDs, redundant styles, and Google's idiosyncratic HTML wrappers
  • AI chat tools — ChatGPT, Claude, and others paste as clean structured content
  • Web pages and other sources — a general-purpose cleaner removes unsafe or email-incompatible elements

What survives is the meaningful structure: headings, paragraphs, lists, bold and italic, links, images, and tables.

What gets removed

For your recipients' safety and email-client compatibility, a few things are always stripped:

  • Scripts, iframes, and form elements
  • Event handlers (onclick and similar)
  • Background styles and fonts that won't render in most email clients
  • Tracking pixels and invisible remote resources

Pasting images

If the content you're pasting includes images, Formtabulous automatically downloads them to your account — you don't end up with broken links pointing to someone else's server. See the Adding Images article for how images are handled.

If an image can't be fetched (the source blocks it, or it's too large), you'll see a notice and can re-add the image manually.

Pasting tables

Tables pasted from Word, Excel, or another editor are cleaned and restructured for email-client compatibility. Styling is normalized to simple borders and padding. See Tables for how to edit tables after pasting.

Paste as plain text

If you want to bypass the cleanup entirely and paste unformatted text, press Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + V. This pastes only the text, with no formatting, no images, and no structure.

What if the formatting didn't come through?

Some sources don't actually provide formatted content on the clipboard — for example, Google's document preview in Gmail or Drive only offers plain text. In those cases, pasting produces plain unformatted text. To get formatting, copy from the source document itself (open the Google Doc, for example, not just the preview).

Last updated: June 10, 2026