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Default Having Clear Formatting reset text to Body Text

1) No. Once you understand how Word does formatting, you will realise that
what you ask for is impossible.

"Clear Formatting" does exactly what it says it does: it removes ALL
formatting from a paragraph.

However, a paragraph in Word is a very complex object, there are some
properties it MUST have in order to be a valid paragraph, and one of them is
a "Style".

All formatting in Word is actually a "Style". All of the formatting of all
parts of a Word document are held at the end of the document, as rows in a
table or "spreadsheet" if you like.

Each paragraph contains a binary number that indicates which row in the
formatting table contains its formatting properties. Many paragraphs can
point to the same row, or just part of a single paragraph may have a row all
of its own.

Normal style is the first row of that table. Row 0. So when you remove all
formatting from a paragraph, you get "Style 0". The human name for "Style
0" is "Normal Style".

Hope this helps


On 10/9/06 10:05 AM, in article
, "
wrote:

Is there an relatively easy method (for novice users) for having Body
Text the default style for a document? Specifically, I'm looking for:
1. Clear Formatting to reset the text's style to Body Text; and
2. the style following other paragraph styles (Headings, etc.) to
default to Body Text instead of Normal.

- Dennis


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