Answers.Body: <p>Do you mean unicode characters like the fancy quotation marks? For CiviReports, unicode output for export to CSV was fixed in 5.22 in <a href="https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/16117" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/16117</a>. What version are you running?</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>There are online tools available that allow you to remove unwanted tags such as this one: <a href="https://www.seabreezecomputers.com/htmlstripper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.seabreezecomputers.com/htmlstripper/</a></p>
  <p>They may not be perfect but much better than merely pasting it or simply using &quot;ctrl + shift + v&quot; to paste which removes all formatting (sometimes you want to keep some parts of the formatting).</p>
  
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Body: <p>Some information that I add into Civi to record activities may be copied and pasted form a word document, an email etc. This looks fine on the activity when reading it on Civi, however when pulling reports as a cvc file the text is littered with jargon (something like: $n&amp;*) where ever a bit of punctuation was. I know that it reads easier (without the jargon) if for each entry the user removes the formatting, however I wondered if there was a way to make this the default.</p>
  
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Title: Is there a way to remove text formatting when copy and pasting text into Activity details section?
ThreadText: # Is there a way to remove text formatting when copy and pasting text into Activity details section?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-08-11)
  
  Some information that I add into Civi to record activities may be copied and pasted form a word document, an email etc. This looks fine on the activity when reading it on Civi, however when pulling reports as a cvc file the text is littered with jargon (something like: $n&\*) where ever a bit of punctuation was. I know that it reads easier (without the jargon) if for each entry the user removes the formatting, however I wondered if there was a way to make this the default.
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-08-11. Score: 1
  
  Do you mean unicode characters like the fancy quotation marks? For CiviReports, unicode output for export to CSV was fixed in 5.22 in <https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/16117>. What version are you running?
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2021-09-06. Score: 1
  
  There are online tools available that allow you to remove unwanted tags such as this one: <https://www.seabreezecomputers.com/htmlstripper/>
  
  They may not be perfect but much better than merely pasting it or simply using "ctrl + shift + v" to paste which removes all formatting (sometimes you want to keep some parts of the formatting).
  
  
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