Selecting the text and then pressing Ctrl+SpaceBar clears any
formatting not in the underlying paragraph style (including
character styles).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Nimbus" wrote in message
...
I review documents from other sources and try to present in a
consistent style.
Some documents use character styles.
I can find no way to remove character styles except by deleting the
style
completely or manually remove all formating using style pane then
reapply
paragraph style.
Following do NOT work.
**Edit replace character style with para graph style - Paragraph
style
changes but character style remains.
**Automatically update document styles when opening document -
character
style remains.
**Simply click on the new paragraph style in style pane - character
style
remains.