The style for the selected content reverts to the “Normal” style.
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. To clear formatting from content, select the text for which you want to clear formatting.
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.
