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Clear Font & Paragraph formatting

Anonymous
2013-08-23T18:40:05+00:00

I have to create 100's CVs

Mostly from pre-formatted documents

I want to

  1. Clear all text formatting
  2. Clear all paragraph formatting (line spacing)
  3. Set margins
  4. Set whole document to Arial 12

I plan to record a macro

Only thing I cant find is (2) a method of clearing all paragraph formatting back to default - I see a default button but the prompt/warning seems to suggest that it wants to update the default settings from the selection instead of apply them to the selection

Question - how do i clear all Paragraqph formatting back to default?

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-08-23T22:10:15+00:00

    CTRL+Q will clear manually applied paragraph formatting.  CTRL+spacebar will clear manually applied font formatting.

    Sounds like what you should be doing is defining a Style (or Styles) that contain the formatting that you want and apply them to the respecting parts of the CVs

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-04T07:28:56+00:00

    CTRL+Q will clear manually applied paragraph formatting.  CTRL+spacebar will clear manually applied font formatting.

     

    Sounds like what you should be doing is defining a Style (or Styles) that contain the formatting that you want and apply them to the respecting parts of the CVs

    Thanks - It's taken me a while to try this out and first thing I notice is it doesn't reset line spacing which should default to single - which leads me to suspect it prolly doesn't reset other paragraph formatting that is not immediately apparent

    Just wondered whether there is any command/instruction/combination to reset paragraph settings to default (as per normal template)

    if you have any thoughts that would be great

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-09-04T14:57:25+00:00

    If the paragraphs are in the Normal style, and that style is defined (in the document) as single-spaced, then Ctrl+Q will reset them. If they're in another style, then what you want is not ResetPara but ClearFormatting. To use this, Ctrl+A to select the entire document, Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S to display the Styles pane, and then click Clear All at the top of the pane. This applies the Normal style to all the content, but note that it is the Normal style as defined in the document, so if that Normal has been modified, you'll have to reset the style formatting before using Clear All.

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