Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Selecting Default Paragraph Formatting.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated June 15, 2021)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Word provides an easy way to remove any explicit paragraph formatting that was done to a paragraph. This is all you have to do:
The paragraph formatting for the selected text will be set back to its default condition, meaning that the paragraph reverts to the formatting defined in the style applied to it.
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