Clear All Previous Formatting

Posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

Many of us have inherited documents from our predecessors and not all of these documents have been formatted with AODA or accessibility in mind.

If you are working with a document that is highly formatted, and you are looking for a quick and easy way to get rid of any and all formatting for a selection of text (or all text), here is a quick way to do it:

  1. Highlight your text selection.
  2. Cut or copy the selection to the Clipboard.
  3. In Windows, start the Notepad accessory.
  4. Paste the Clipboard contents (your selection) into the Notepad.

Since the Notepad accessory can only work with unformatted text, all formatting for your text selection is removed. You can then either save your selection as a text file, or copy it back to the Clipboard and paste it back into Word. Then feel free to add formatting that is AODA compliant.


Comments

Comments are closed.