

You can also select the content for which you want to clear the formatting and click the Clear All Formatting button in the Font section of the “Home” tab. It’s not, and besides what he mentioned about it not being clear, it’s not clear if you just want to remove formatting in a word or two, or the entire document. The style for the selected content reverts to the “Normal” style. Answer (1 of 4): Another answer mentioned that remove formatting isn’t very clear. Select the the “Clear Formatting” option at the top of the list of styles. The Styles pane will pop up on the right side of your screen. In the Styles section, click on the “Styles Pane” button found to the right of the available styles. To select all the text in your document, press Ctrl+A on Windows or Command+A on Mac. Note: If you want to show or hide all formatting marks, you can click under Home tab, or you can press shortcut Ctrl+ to switch showing or hiding. To clear formatting from content, select the text for which you want to clear formatting. Step 2: click Display, in Always show these formatting marks on the screen section, check to show them in documents or you can check Show all formatting marks to show all formatting marks in document. That’s when you might notice that your formatting changes do not work. Note: In Word, there is an overriding style attached to every paragraph, so any formatting changes made to paragraphs without changing the associated style may not stick.

We’ll show you a couple of ways to do this. If you’ve applied various formatting changes to the content in your document, and they either don’t work or you want to start over, you can easily clear formatting from selected text in Microsoft Word.
