Ampler’s Keep text only pastes copied text stripped of its source formatting, so it inherits the destination’s font, size, and colour instead of dragging foreign styling into the slide.
Quick answer: Copy the source text, then click Keep text only on the Ampler ribbon. The text is inserted as plain text and takes on the formatting of the target placeholder — no font, colour, or size carried over from the source.
How to use it
Copy the text, then Keep text only to paste it plain.
- Select and copy the source text (from a slide, Word, a browser, or email).
- Click Keep text only on the Ampler ribbon.
The pasted text adopts the destination placeholder’s font, size, and colour; any source styling is discarded.
Keyboard shortcut
Keep text only has no default shortcut. To assign one, open the Settings dropdown on the Ampler ribbon, choose Shortcuts, click Set shortcut on the function, and press your key combination.
Why use it
Text copied from a browser, a Word file, or an email carries its own font, size, colour, and paragraph spacing. Pasted straight in, that styling overrides the slide master and leaves the deck visibly inconsistent — and cleaning it up afterwards is slow. Keep text only discards the source formatting on the way in, so the text lands in the placeholder’s own style in a single click, rather than the multi-step native Paste Special route.
How consultants use it
In consulting, a deck is expected to look as though one hand built it, and the fastest way to break that is to paste research or client text with its original formatting intact. Because so much slide content originates elsewhere — interviews, reports, web sources — disciplined pasting is a standing habit. Three practices are standard:
- Strip source formatting on every paste: incoming text is pasted plain by default, never with its native font and colour, so nothing foreign enters the deck.
- Let the slide master own the styling: pasted text inherits the template’s type and colour, keeping every slide on the firm’s house style.
- Fix it at the source, not the end: stripping formatting on entry avoids a manual clean-up pass before the deck goes to review.
Keep text only makes that a one-click default rather than a four-step Paste Special detour.
Tips & best practices
- Assign a keyboard shortcut — this is a function you’ll use dozens of times a day.
- Reach for it whenever text comes from Word, a browser, or email.
- Follow a bulk paste with Scan & Fix to catch any remaining inconsistencies.
Availability
Included in Ampler for PowerPoint and the Ampler Suite, on Windows desktop PowerPoint.
Frequently asked questions
How do you paste text without formatting in PowerPoint?
Copy the text, then click Keep text only on the Ampler ribbon. Ampler pastes the text as plain text so it takes on the destination placeholder’s font, size, and colour instead of the source formatting.
How do you remove formatting from text pasted into a slide?
Use Ampler’s Keep text only function. Unlike the native multi-step Paste Special, it strips the source font, colour, and size in a single click as the text is pasted.
Can you set a keyboard shortcut for paste without formatting?
Yes. Open the Ampler Settings → Shortcuts, click Set shortcut on the Keep text only function, and press your preferred key combination.
Why does pasted text keep its original formatting in PowerPoint?
Because a normal paste preserves the source’s font, colour, and spacing. Ampler’s Keep text only discards that styling so the text adopts the slide’s own formatting.