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Google Docs to Royal Road BBCode Cleaner

Paste a chapter from Google Docs, Word, or Markdown and get clean Royal-Road-safe BBCode back. It keeps your bold, italics, headings, lists, links, and blockquotes, and strips the invisible junk those apps inject. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing you paste is sent anywhere.

Reading the box as Markdown. A paste from Google Docs or Word is detected on paste.
Your text is cleaned in your browser and never leaves your computer. There is no account and nothing is uploaded.
Clean BBCode for Royal Road
[b][size=4]The Dungeon's Third Floor[/size][/b]

The torch guttered as Kaela stepped through the arch. Something [b]massive[/b] shifted in the dark, and a voice like grinding stone said, [i]"You should not have come here."[/i]

She pulled up her status screen one last time:

• Health: 240 / 240
• Mana: 88 / 120
• Condition: [b]Poisoned[/b]

[i]A Floor Boss has awakened.[/i]

The full bestiary entry is on [url=https://www.royalroad.com]Royal Road[/url].

[hr]

Time to fight.
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What changed
  • headings converted1
  • list items converted3
  • links converted1

How to use it

  1. Copy your chapter in Google Docs or Word, then paste it into the box on the left. The tool reads the formatted paste, not just the words.
  2. If you write in Markdown instead, switch the toggle to Markdown, or just paste plain text and type.
  3. Read the clean BBCode on the right, then press Copy.
  4. In the Royal Road chapter editor, paste it into the BBCode view. Your bold, italics, headings, lists, and links come through, and the hidden junk is gone.

Why a Google Docs paste breaks on Royal Road

When you copy out of Google Docs or Word, the clipboard carries far more than your words. It carries a wrapper that marks the whole passage bold and then turns the boldness off again, non-breaking spaces that Royal Road renders as odd gaps, empty style spans, zero-width characters you cannot see, and an internal container id. Paste that straight into Royal Road and the formatting comes out wrong, so most authors end up retyping their bold and italics by hand. This tool reads that exact clipboard shape and rebuilds it as clean BBCode.

  • Kept: bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, headings, bullet and numbered lists, links, blockquotes, and horizontal rules.
  • Stripped: the font-weight:normal bold wrapper, non-breaking and zero-width spaces, empty spans, inline style attributes, and the docs-internal-guid container.
  • Private: the whole thing runs in your browser with no account and no upload, so a draft you have not published yet never leaves your computer.

WriteIDE does this for your whole book, automatically

This tool handles one at a time. WriteIDE is the desktop studio that tracks LitRPG stats, items, skills, and quests across a whole novel, and keeps them correct at every scene.

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Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, and it keeps working with your network off.
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