How to use Perplexity Remove Formatting
Perplexity answers often combine Markdown structure with citation links, making clean conversion important when reusing research. Use the clean text in email, forms, messaging apps, or editors that show Perplexity asterisks and heading marks literally; the switches above the editor keep URLs, list markers or code. Text copied from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini arrives as Markdown, so an email, a form or a chat app shows the asterisks, hashes and square brackets literally. This tool removes them with fixed find-and-replace rules: it never adds, removes or substitutes a word, and the counts above the result show how many symbols went. By default headings lose their hashes, bold and italic lose their asterisks and underscores, links keep their visible text, bullets become • and numbered items keep their numbers, code fences are removed and the code stays, and pipe tables become tab-separated rows. Tick Keep link URLs to get text (url), choose Remove under List markers for flowing prose, tick Keep code blocks to leave fenced code exactly as written, tick Tidy spacing to collapse doubled spaces and stacked blank lines, and tick Show what changed to see a word-level diff that proves only formatting moved. Identifiers such as snake_case_word and MY_ENV_VAR are left alone.
- Copy the text or table you want to fix.
- Paste it into the input above. The result updates instantly.
- Copy, download, share, or embed the finished result.
Frequently asked questions
How do I use Perplexity Remove Formatting?
Copy the relevant content from Perplexity, paste it into the editor above, and use the live result immediately.
Does this upload my Perplexity conversation?
No. Conversion runs in your browser. Text is stored only when you explicitly create a share link.
Can I edit the converted Perplexity result?
Yes. The result remains editable when copied or downloaded in an editable format.
What happens to Perplexity's citations?
Citation numbers such as [1] are ordinary text and pass through unchanged, and the list of source links that Perplexity appends stays at the end of the result. Keep it as a reference list or delete it before you share the document; nothing here rewrites it.