In Microsoft Word, direct formatting is great when used conservatively, but removing it in a document littered with it is difficult. These Word tips might help.

QUICK ANSWER To clear formatting in Word, select the text you wish to clear formatting for. After that, click the Clear All Formatting button from the Font section in the Home tab.

Microsoft Word’s section breaks tool makes formatting and page setup easier. Learn how to use section breaks in our quick step-by-step guide.

The How-To Geek weblog steps through how to use Word's find and replace feature to handle formatting the same way it handles text. Click in the blank Find box, and then you can use the regular ...

Learn how to remove all section breaks at once from a Word document. This guide hepls you delete multiple section breaks in bulk.

If Formatting marks or or non-printing characters are turned on in Word, it displays hidden characters such as Tab characters, Spaces, Paragraphs marks, Hidden text, Optional hyphens, etc.