Quickly reverse formatting in MS Word

I often come across people who say they "hate MS Word" as "it never does what I want".  And to be fair, their documents are misbehaving, but often this is caused by formatting errors.  And I'm not referring to using Bold or Italics in the wrong places.  MS Word has all sorts of format settings, (many of which can be a bit obscure if you don't know where or what to look for) which relate to paragraph spacing, or indents, or line breaks.

As you work on and edit a document you may be deleting text, or removing visible formats (colour, bold, italics etc.) but you may be leaving a footprint trail of non-visible formats.  Some of which will drive you insane when you can't figure out why that line of text won't move down, or why your automatic numbering won't indent.

  

To ensure that you have made a clean break from any formatting that may be present, use the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab

Do you face any challenges with your MS Word documents?  Leave a comment and let me know... you might be inspiration for the next installment of MissusMcK's tips