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Have you ever inherited a file where someone has tinkered so much with the formatting that you might as well start from scratch? As you probably know there are various ways to clear the formatting of your document ...
In Microsoft 365 there is a prominent Clear All Formatting button in the Font group on the Home tab, which in previous versions is a bit more hidden under the More button in the Styles group or accessible from its dialog box launcher, as described in tip 436. (tip_436.php)
But if you like using keyboard shortcuts you can clear all the formatting from the selection, leaving only the plain text. Check out the following and find your favourite.
Here's how:
For me CTRL + SHIFT + N and CTRL + Q don't work in Word 365 so I've embraced CTRL + SHIFT + Z as it makes me think of a more powerful version of the go-back-to-where-I-was-happy (aka Undo) keyboard shortcut CTRL + Z.
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* Unless stated otherwise, these tips were written for Microsoft Office 2010.
2021-10-07
CTRL + SPACEBAR will remove character formatting such as fonts, italics/bold and font size,
but keep paragraph formatting such as Styles, indents and line spacing.