Unformatted text

 When you copy formatted Unformatted text is any text that is not associated with any formatting information It is plain text containing only printable characters white space and line breaks you can copy it to your clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C The formatting data is also copied to the clipboard saying "this text is bold " When you paste it (Ctrl+V) into a program that also supports formatted text that format text to your clipboard formatting information may or may not be copied with the text data For example if you select text in one application that is boldface ting data is included and the pasted text should appear bold However if you paste the text into an application that does not support bold text such as Microsoft Notepad the pasted text is unformatted Notepad ignores the formatting information because it doesn't understand it However the plain text is pasted correctly Convert Case Online The same is true if you paste the formatted text into a text field such as the address bar in your web browser Formatting data is stripped but the plain text is pasted Unformatted text