Cancel text formatting in Word 2013

You can cancel the entire format of a piece of text in a Microsoft Word 2013 document to return it to the default state.

If you copy a piece of text from another document but it is not formatted the way you want it, you can easily remove the entire text format to return it to the default state.

To do this, select the text you want to remove, click 'Clear All Formatting' in the 'Font' section of the 'Home' tab. The text will return to 'Normal' style by default.

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You can also use the same method to remove the entire format of the text in a PowerPoint document.

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In addition, a faster way to remove the entire format in Word and PowerPoint is: Select the text, press the ' Ctrl + spacebar' key combination to remove the entire character format; Or press the 'Ctrl + Q' key combination to remove all text paragraph formatting.