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In Word 2010, 'Clear formatting' is reverting to a previous default style, NOT the one set

Anonymous
2015-10-12T16:50:07+00:00

A few days ago for no reason my default template changed to Calibri font - I want Arial. I correctly changed it back and new docs work fine, but when editing a new doc that has had text from another source pasted in to it and which i want to clear the formatting of that source from, highlighting it and clicking clear formatting from the styles menu flips that highlighted text not to Aria, the current default font, but Calibri.

It thus seems that somewhere in Word, there is a different default font setting which 'clear formatting' is linked to and whcih is entirely separate from the normal.doc template.

Obviously i could change the various style aspects of the pasted-in text one at a time but that assumes i know what they are and is slower - the whole point of clear formatting is it does is all at once,.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-15T22:46:27+00:00

    I am consistently having problems with my defined styles, which are in Arial.  Inexplicably, these styles will convert to Calibri. I go in to modify the style - it says it's defined as Arial, not Calibri.   I select the style and click "reapply this style." It switches to Calibri.  I manually modify the style to Arial, I modify the style to "update to match selection." It converts it to Calibri.  I've tried changing the default font to Arial in the Normal template. I select clear formatting - it changes to Calibri. New documents default to Arial. But if I apply one of the styles I've defined in the other doc, which I have "added to template" to make accessible, guess what it turns into ... yep. Calibri. I'm in Calibri Hell!!  Help!  How do I get rid of this??

    Thank you in advance!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-20T21:28:09+00:00

    MS have prompted me to ask if this is till an issue - it is, see above, and I;ve just tested it again; text pased in to Word from a website - formattedbin all kinds of colours, fonts etc - when 'clear formatting' is applied changes to calibri (body) 11pt, NOT the arial 11 I want and which is set as the default for new docs.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-12T20:04:21+00:00

    Hi. Ok but I can only speak from experience, and both at work and with my home PCs, clear formatting is the button to use and the result is that it has always removed all other formatting and left the text it is applied to matching the font of the surrounding text - Arial 11pt, usually. By definition therefore it must be either seeking to match fonts (minus colouring, underlining etc) or - by pure chance - have Arial as its own 'default'.

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  4. @CmdrKeene 90,626 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-10-12T18:57:13+00:00

    Clear Formatting is not meant to reset back to a "set" default, it's mean to "absolutely clear all formatting, leaving only the text and no styles at all".

    If you want to use a set format, but not totally clear of all formats, then you don't want to use that button -- you'll want to use the styles options instead.

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