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Revealing Formatting Styles

Word uses wavy blue underlines to indicate possible instances of inconsistent formatting. If you see a wavy blue underline while formatting a document, you can open the Reveal Formatting pane to display the format of selected text, such as its font and font effects. The Reveal Formatting pane allows you to display, change, or clear formatting for the selected text. You can also select text based on formatting so that you can compare the formatting used in the selected text with formatting used in other parts of the documents. To open the Reveal Formatting pane, you use the Style Inspector on the Styles pane.

Select or Clear Text Formatting

Select the text whose formatting you want to select or clear away.

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