Word Document Cleaner

Documents authored in word processors, spreadsheets and other applications may contain non-standard characters that will appear as unattractive, strange hieroglyphics on your Web page. Apostrophes, smart quotes, dashes and certain special characters are typical examples.

This page converts most of those characters into their closest ASCII equivalent, providing you with clean text to add to your Web page.

Here's how...

1. Open your source document, and select the textual content you want. Use the copy command to load the content to your clipboard.
2. Paste the content into the upper window on this page
3. Select "Process Content"
4. Select and copy the cleaned content from the lower window.
5. Paste the content into your Web page
6. Proceed to add your HTML markup

Why Use This Tool

Content produced with Word Processing, Spreadsheet and other software applications may contain characters that are not part of the ASCII character set. When pasted into an HTML document, these characters can get displayed as question marks or odd-looking hieroglyphics. This tool translates those characters into their ASCII equivalent, resulting in clean HTML that looks proper in all browsers and on all devices.

Tip for Windows Users

Learn and use these keystroke alternatives for basic copy & paste functions. It will speed up your work considerably.