Hi, what is the keyboard shortcut for clearing all formatting and styles
from a document in Word 2002? I have a long document with some really weird
formatting - I want to blow away all character formats, paragraph setting,
line settings, styles - EVERYTHING - and start from scratch. In Word 97
there used to be a keystroke for this that worked better than Edit, Clear,
Formats. Is this still true for 2002?
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Thanks,
GillianHG

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Spacebar, Ctrl+Q will remove all direct paragraph and font
formatting. If you want to blow away all the styles as well, Ctrl+Shift+N
will apply Normal style.

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"GillianHG" wrote in message
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Hi, what is the keyboard shortcut for clearing all formatting and styles
from a document in Word 2002? I have a long document with some really
weird
formatting - I want to blow away all character formats, paragraph setting,
line settings, styles - EVERYTHING - and start from scratch. In Word 97
there used to be a keystroke for this that worked better than Edit, Clear,
Formats. Is this still true for 2002?
--
Thanks,
GillianHG

If you want all of this packaged in a Word add-in see:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm