Removing all formatting
When you have a document sometimes the formatting can go a tad wonky or worse, you try and change the format a bit and things go very wrong. I once saw a secretary who added a bullet to the text and a bullet appeared on the next like as well and the indentation of both paragraphs were wrong.
Has anything like that happened to you? Sometimes you need to wipe all the formatting off the text so you can start fresh and apply the format you want.
Clear formatting is this tool. It is available within the styles and formatting area, pre 2007 this was in the styles and formatting task pane, there was an option for clear formatting within the list of styles, if this is not automatically available change which styles are shown. There is a button at the bottom of the styles task pane called manage styles or a drop down list.
There is also a clear formats button, looks like an eraser, in 2007 and 2010 it is on the home ribbon in the font section.
Select the text to clear the formats from then either press the clear formats button or the option within the Ribbon.
You can use Ctrl A to select the entire document then use the clear format to start from formatting scratch!
