How to Remove Formatting in Word

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To emphasize and add clarity to a Word document, you can format the text in a paragraph.

You can make the text bold, italicize it, underline it, and more. This is character-level formatting.

You can also add paragraph-level formattings, like indents, line spacing, paragraph spacing, and more.

This is where you might run into problems. Word applies an underlining style to every paragraph. You may want to format a paragraph without changing the associated style. But Word does not allow such formatting.

Sometimes you may find formatting a text or paragraph is taking too long or is not working at all. The best way out is to clear all the formatting and start afresh.

Word offers three ways of removing formatting in documents:

  • By using keystroke shortcuts
  • By changing the style
  • By using Clear All Formatting

Note that you can use the above methods to remove formatting from a few paragraphs of the document. You can also apply the methods to an entire document to clear its formatting.

We will show you all three methods. Let us begin.

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How to Wrap Text in MS Excel

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Learning how to wrap text in Excel is a great way to format text in a cell, so it doesn’t take up your entire window. It’s one of those subtle quirks from Excel that affect how your data is displayed. Having a clear view of your dataset on Excel improves readability, efficiency, and helps reduce errors.

There are a few ways to go about text wrapping cells in Excel. 

2 Ways to Wrap Text In Excel

  • Wrapping Text automatically through a format setting
  • Manually adding a line break at each cell

Let’s get started.

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How to Make One Page Landscape In Word

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Word offers two choices for orienting your pages in a document. You can orient them either as portrait or as landscape. While portrait is the default option, you can switch to the landscape mode anytime.

Your document may have many small tables and charts in it. You can make the document look uniform by using portrait-oriented pages. But what if one of the tables or charts is large, and it does not fit on one portrait-oriented page? You may need to turn that page in the document into landscape orientation to show the large table or chart. 

2 ways to make a Single Page Landscape in Word

  • By introducing breaks and changing the orientation
  • Using the Page Setup menu

Let us see how.

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How to add borders in Google Docs

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There are several situations when you might want to add page numbers in your document. Some examples are when you are writing a report or compiling a manuscript for a book.

You can add page numbers in the header (the top part of the document) or the footer (the bottom part of the document). Most documents (e.g. books, reports, etc.) have page numbers in the header, as it is more convenient for the reader.

You can use different methods to add page numbers in your Google Docs document. In this article, we will be talking about three of these methods.

3 Ways to add Borders in Google Docs

  • Double-clicking the header or footer
  • Going to the ‘Insert’ menu
  • Going to the ‘Format’ menu 

We will also be talking about how you can change the format of your page numbers. This includes things like their font style, colour and alignment.

Also, we wrote this article for complete beginners so you can follow along even if you’ve never used Google Docs!

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How to resize an image in Google Docs (S)

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Sometimes, the images you add in your document may not be the right size so you have to resize them. For example, you might want to reduce the number of pages you use when you are pritning a document with images. You can do this by reducing the size of the images.

Another reason why you might want to resize your image is to improve its look. When your images don’t have a good resolution, they tend to look pixelated. Reducing their size would make them look better.

Google Docs gives you several options for resizing your image. In this article, we will be talking about the following four methods you can use to resize your images.

3 ways to Resize an Image in Google Docs

  • Using the anchors on your image
  • Using image options 
  • Cropping your image

Note that this article is meant for complete beginners. So, even if you’ve never used Google Docs before, you can follow along!

With that introduction, let’s get started.

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How to add page numbers in Google Docs (S)

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There are several situations when you might want to add page numbers in your document. Some examples are when you are writing a report or compiling a manuscript for a book.

You can add page numbers in the header (the top part of the document) or the footer (the bottom part of the document). Most documents (e.g. books, reports, etc.) have page numbers in the header, as it is more convenient for the reader.

You can use different methods to add page numbers in your Google Docs document. In this article, we will be talking about three of these methods:

3 Ways to add Page Numbers to a Google Doc

  • Double-clicking the header or footer
  • Going to the ‘Insert’ menu
  • Going to the ‘Format’ menu 

We will also be talking about how you can change the format of your page numbers. This includes things like their font style, colour and alignment.

Also, we wrote this article for complete beginners so you can follow along even if you’ve never used Google Docs!

Let’s get started.

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How to insert a Signature Line in Word

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So you have drafted a document and now you want the other party to sign the document. So obviously you will need a signature line where the signature can be placed.

There are 2 ways to sign a document:

  • Either the document will be printed and signed.
  • You will share a soft copy of the document. The signatory will sign the soft copy and send it back to you. You may either mail the soft copy or simply share the document online.

So , for a printed document, a simple straight line will be adequate for a signature.

But, if you want the third party to sign an online document, then a little different approach is required.

The reason is that Word will split up the straight line when a signatory tries to sign an online word document.

So the very act of signing the document will impact the placement of the signature line. Hence, we must use a different method to place the signature line in an online word document.

How to place a signature line in Word Document

  • Insert/Draw a signature line for a Printed Word document.
  • Insert/Draw a signature line for an online Word document:
    • By adding a 1×1 table with a bottom border
    • By creating a line with introductory text
    • By adding a signature line

We will show you all the methods with their individual steps.

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How to Add Footnotes In Google Docs

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A footnote refers to the text that is placed at the very bottom of the page. There are several situations in which you might want to include a footnote in your document. For example, you might want to add citations for an essay in the footnotes.

In an essay or article, you can also use the citations section to provide additional information about something you said. For instance, you can add the definition of a word you mentioned in the essay or article in the footnotes. This is useful as it allows you to keep your writing focused on the topic.

Hence, footnotes are a really useful feature. But how exactly do you add footnotes in word processing software?

In this article, we will be explaining the various methods of adding footnotes in Google Docs. Specifically, we will be talking about the following four methods.

4 ways to add Footnotes to Google Docs

  • Double-clicking on the bottom part of the page
  • Using the keyboard shortcut
  • Using the ‘Insert’ menu
  • Using the ‘Explore’ button

We will also cover how you can format your footnotes. 

Note that you will be able to follow this article even if you’re a complete beginner to Google Docs.

Let’s start.

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How to add superscript in a Google Doc

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Superscript is a format that is used in several contexts, especially the academic context.

Some SuperScript Examples: X3, Y4-5 Apple™, etc.

In this article, we will take you through how to add a superscript in Google Docs.

4 Ways to Add Super Scripts in a Google Doc

  • Adding superscript using keyboard shortcuts
  • Adding superscript from the Format menu
  • Adding superscript using ‘Special characters’
  • Adding superscript using ‘Equations’

Let’s get started.

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How to Save Word Doc as jpeg

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Sometimes it is necessary to save a Word document as an image file, mainly as an evidence that you want to share with others.

For this purpose, Word offers saving a document as a PDF or Portable Document Format.

However, if you want to insert part of a document as an image into another document, you must save the first document as an image file.

To do that, you must use an online converter, or the screen capturing feature available in Microsoft Windows. Therefore, there are two methods to you can use.

2 Ways to Save a Word doc as Jpeg

  • Convert PDF to jpeg using Adobe Acrobat online converter
  • Convert to jpeg using Microsoft Windows Snip & Search

We will explain both methods. Let’s begin.

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