Clear all text formatting
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You can easily clear all formatting (such as bold, underline, italics, color, superscript, subscript, and more) from your text and return your text to its default formatting styles.
Note: This article explains how to remove the formatting from a document. If you need to undo an action (rather than undo formatting), see Undo, redo, or repeat an action.
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Select the text that you want to return to its default formatting.
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In Word and Publisher
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting.
In PowerPoint
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting.
In Outlook
On the Message tab, in the Basic Text group, click Clear All Formatting.
OneNote
On the Home tab, in the Basic Text group, click Clear All Formatting.
Clear formatting from text
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Select the text that you want to return to its default formatting.
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In Word:
On the Edit menu, click Clear and then select Clear Formatting.
In PowerPoint:
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting
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.Note: This action applies only to formatting that you have added or modified. It doesn’t apply to default page layout styles, such as slide headers or bullet styles, that you haven’t modified.
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Select the text you want to clear formatting from.
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Click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab of the ribbon.
Tip: It should appear just to the right of the font settings, such as font size and color, but depending on your screen size and layout you may have to click the More button (which looks like 3 dots) to see the additional buttons.
See also
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Add or remove borders for text boxes, pictures, and shapes
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Clear all text formatting
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You can easily clear all formatting (such as bold, underline, italics, color, superscript, subscript, and more) from your text and return your text to its default formatting styles.
Note: This article explains how to remove the formatting from a document. If you need to undo an action (rather than undo formatting), see Undo, redo, or repeat an action.
-
Select the text that you want to return to its default formatting.
-
In Word and Publisher
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting.
In PowerPoint
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting.
In Outlook
On the Message tab, in the Basic Text group, click Clear All Formatting.
OneNote
On the Home tab, in the Basic Text group, click Clear All Formatting.
Clear formatting from text
-
Select the text that you want to return to its default formatting.
-
In Word:
On the Edit menu, click Clear and then select Clear Formatting.
In PowerPoint:
On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting
.
Note: This action applies only to formatting that you have added or modified. It doesn’t apply to default page layout styles, such as slide headers or bullet styles, that you haven’t modified.
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Select the text you want to clear formatting from.
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Click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab of the ribbon.
Tip: It should appear just to the right of the font settings, such as font size and color, but depending on your screen size and layout you may have to click the More button (which looks like 3 dots) to see the additional buttons.
See also
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Add or remove borders for text boxes, pictures, and shapes
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Remove formatting you don’t want and get a clean file
Updated on December 14, 2020
What to Know
- Method 1: Select the affected text. Go to the drop-down arrow at the bottom of the Styles box. Select Clear Formatting.
- Method 2: Select the affected text. Choose Clear All Formatting in the upper-right corner of the Font group on the Home tab.
This article explains how to clear formatting in Word in a couple of ways in Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013 and Word 2010. It includes information on using a plain text editor to remove formatting.
How to Clear Formatting in Word Using Clear All Formatting
Adding formatting to text in a Microsoft Word document, such as bold, italics, or underlining, can add emphasis and clarity to the file. However, such formatting could also cause trouble in certain circumstances, such as when copying and pasting between documents.
There are several ways to clear formatting in Word using its built-in tools or a plain text editor.
Use the Clear Formatting option in the Styles group to clear the formatting of a section of text or the entire Word document.
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Select the text from which you want to remove formatting in Word. Use your mouse to highlight only part of the text or select all the text in the document by selecting anywhere inside the document and pressing Ctrl+A to highlight all the text.
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Select the drop-down arrow in the lower-right corner of the Styles box to expand the Styles menu.
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Select Clear Formatting. Any formatting applied to the selected text will be removed.
How to Clear Formatting in Word Using the Clear All Formatting Button
The same results can be achieved using a shortcut button on the ribbon. Clear formatting from any or all of the text in a document.
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Select the text from which you want to remove formatting in Word. Use your mouse to highlight only part of the text or select all the text in the document by selecting anywhere inside the document and pressing Ctrl+A to highlight all the text.
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Select Clear All Formatting in the upper-right corner of the Font group on the Home tab of the ribbon. It resembles an upper-case letter A with a pink rubber eraser in front of it.
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Any formatting applied to the selected text will be removed.
How to Clear Formatting in Word Using Notepad
Strip text of any formatting using a plain text editor, such as Notepad. This is beneficial if you’ve copied and pasted text from the internet or want to paste text from Word into an online content management system.
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Open the document with the text from which you want to clear formatting.
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Type «notepad» into the Windows Search box and press Enter. A new, blank Notepad file will open.
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Return to the Word document. Select the text from which you want to remove formatting in Word. Use your mouse to highlight only part of the text or select all the text in the document by selecting anywhere inside the document and pressing Ctrl+A to highlight all of it.
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Press Ctrl+C to copy the highlighted text. Alternatively, select Copy in the Clipboard group of the Home tab.
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Go back to the Notepad file. Select anywhere inside the window and press Ctrl+V to paste the text copied from Word. Alternatively, select Edit > Paste.
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Use the mouse to select the plain text in the Notepad file. Press Ctrl+C or select Edit > Copy to copy the text. Paste it back in Word or anywhere else you want to use it.
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Для того, чтобы снять форматирование в Ворде нужно в ленте на вкладке Главная нажать кнопку «Очистить все форматирование»
Так же очистить формат в Ворде можно горящими клавишам: Ctrl+пробел (Space)
Есть особенность, кнопка не очищает цвет выделенного текста.
Принцип работы очистки форматирования
Кнопка очистить формат работает по особенному принципу в Ворде: она текст превращает в специально заданный стиль.
Стили находятся здесь:
Нам нужен стиль «Обычный», потому что кнопка «Очистки форматирования» любой текст превращает в стиль «Обычный, даже если он до этого был Заголовком.
Нажимаем на стиль «Обычный» правой клавишей, и выбираем «изменить».
Далее перенастроим «Обычный» стиль, шрифт сделаем Arial, размер шрифта 16, полужирный, цвет синий:
Если нажать кнопку «Формат» в левом нижнем углу, то выйдет намного больше вариантов для настройки.
Теперь еще раз покажу на скриншоте снизу как было до:
После нажатия кнопки, мы видим такой результат:
У нас текст стал полужирным, шрифт стал Arial, Размер шрифта 16, Цвет текста – Синий.
Вывод: Кнопка «Очистить все форматирование» = Применению стиля «Обычный». Вдобавок ко всему прочему кнопка не убирает цвет выделения текста.
Альтернативные варианты
В жизни удалить форматирование в Ворде бывает необходимо, когда копируют кусок текста из интернета или другого файла, где текст пестрит особым форматированием.
На практике кнопкой очистки форматирования не пользуются, а прибегают к 1 из 2 способов:
Первый способ очистки форматирования
Через блокнот! Просто копируют нужный кусок текста в блокнот (стандартная программа на Windows), блокнот сам очищает пестрое форматирование, затем с блокнота уже копируют «чистый текст» в Word.
Я скопировал наши 2 «пестрых» абзаца в Буфер, и вставил в блокнот:
Теперь уже в блокноте скопировал 2 «чистых» абзаца, и вставил в Word:
Этот метод имеет свои минусы, например в блокнот нельзя скопировать таблицу.
Второй способ удаления форматирования
Через кнопку «Формат по образцу». Это чудо кнопка копирует формат у нужного абзаца, а затем заменяет форматирование в «пестром».
Разберем на примере: кликаем курсор мыши на нужный «Чистый» абзац (с которого нужно скопировать стили), далее нажимаем на кнопку «Формат по образцу»:
После нажатия кнопки «Формат по образцу» курсор мыши должен поменяться. После нужно просто выделить наши «пестрые» абзацы. Применение кнопки вступит в силу после отпусканий левой клавиши мышки.
Вывод: на практике 2 альтернативных метода применяются намного чаще, чем сама кнопка «Очистить все форматирование». Ведь цель очистки в том, чтобы убрать «лишнее форматирование».
Но даже эти методы не спасут вас от «непечатных символов», их нужно только удалять вручную. Непечатные символы иногда появляются после копирования текста с разных сайтов, они очень мешают нормальному форматированию, например могу делать большие разрывы между словами или переносить текст наследующую строку.
If you’ve pasted in content from other sources, you may need to clear the formatting from a Word document. Here’s how.
Copying text from multiple sources into a Microsoft Word document can be problematic. You could end up with different text sizes and colors, backgrounds, paragraph styles, and more.
This can make a Word document look messy, unprofessional, and difficult to read. If this happens to you, the best thing to do is to clear all of the applied formatting and start again.
Removing the formatting this way could be time consuming at first, but will save you time once you come to edit your document. To clear formatting from a Word document, here’s what you’ll need to do.
Using the Clear All Formatting Button
If you want to quickly clear all of the formatting from highlighted text, you can do so by clicking the Clear All Formatting button in the Word ribbon bar.
To start, highlight the text containing the formatting you wish to remove. If you want to select everything in your document, press Ctrl + A on your keyboard.
With your text selected, click the Clear All Formatting button, located in the Home tab of the ribbon bar.
Pressing this will remove all of the formatting from your selected text. Word will instead revert to the default style used for text in your document.
One thing to note, however. This won’t remove any hyperlinks in your text, so you’ll need to remove these manually afterwards.
Using the Styles Options Menu
You can achieve the same effect by using the Styles options menu.
As with the method above, you’ll need to first select the text you want to format (or press Ctrl + A to select all text).
With your text selected, press the additional options arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Styles section. This is found in the Home tab of the ribbon bar.
Select the Clear Formatting option.
This will remove the formatting, with any hyperlinks remaining in place.
Using Keyboard Shortcuts
If you’re regularly changing or removing text formatting from your documents, then you can speed things up by learning some easy keyboard shortcuts.
You’ll need to make sure your text is selected first. Once it is, you can use the following shortcuts to manipulate the formatting in your document:
- Ctrl + Space removes formatting from the text itself, but will leave your paragraph formatting untouched. This method does remove hyperlinks from your text.
- Ctrl + Q will leaves text formatting in place (so bold or italic text remains), but removes the paragraph formatting. Heading formatting will still stay in place.
- Ctrl + Shift + N applies the Nomal template (the default Word formatting settings) to your text. This will remove heading and paragraph formatting, but it won’t change the font formatting.
- If you want to remove all formatting from your text, use Ctrl + Space followed by Ctrl + Shift + N to get rid of everything, including hyperlinks.
Using Paste Special
Another method of removing formatting is to use the Paste Special method. This method is also useful if you want to remove any formatting from text you’re pasting in from another source, such as a web page.
To do this, first highlight the text you’re looking to change. With your text selected, press Cut under the Home tab, or press Ctrl + X on your keyboard. This will cut the text and place it in your clipboard.
Press the down arrow next to the Paste option under the Home tab. From the drop-down menu, select Paste Special (or press Alt + Ctrl + V) to open the Paste Special options box.
Select Unformatted Text, then click OK to paste the text.
Your text will be pasted back into your document with all formatting removed. This will also remove any hyperlinks found in your original text.
As we’ve mentioned, this is often the best method to use if you’re pasting text from other sources. This will allow you to apply formatting to your text using Word itself.
Better Document Creation in Microsoft Word
By removing the formatting from a Word document, you can start again. This is just one of many powerful features in Microsoft Word that you can use to create more advanced documents.
For instance, you could remove page breaks in Word to help format your document pages a little better. If you’re creating different document templates, you could make one page landscape to help you make the most of the page. If you’re feeling creative, you could even draw in Microsoft Word using its built-in design tools.
These features, along with many others, may help you save you time and effort when you’re creating your documents.
