Why pasting from Word breaks everything – and how to fix it

Have you ever pasted content from Microsoft Word into your CMS and ended up with ugly HTML full of inline styles, random fonts and invisible garbage? You're not alone.

What's going on?

Word includes a lot of hidden formatting in the background: custom XML tags, inline styles, smart quotes, Office-specific classes like mso-style and more. These are carried over when you paste into a browser or editor, creating inconsistent layouts and bloated HTML.

How Puritext helps

Puritext detects this Word-originated HTML and strips it down to clean, semantic content. It preserves essential tags like <p>, <strong> and <em>, but removes unnecessary wrappers and inline cruft.

Clean output in seconds

You can paste directly into the Puritext web app or automate cleaning using the API.

“Before Puritext, we spent hours cleaning up content pasted from Word. Now it’s automated.” – a happy content manager

Try it now and stop fighting with Word forever 💥