With the text selected, open Edit>Clear>Clear Formatting.

Tap the handy but eternally forgotten Remove Formatting tool – look for the letter A with a tiny pink eraser icon masking the right-hand foot of the A.

To get rid of that formatting and return to nice crisp text, just select the copy and either: You take text from another document or website and find that you’ve imported formatting you just don’t need.

Or click thrice to select the text in an entire paragraph.

Click twice to select the entire word you just clicked.

Click once to enter the cursor in a section of text.

I suspect more people don’t know about or use this than those who do when selecting text: It's so much faster than writing your words and then amending their placement. The cursor magically appears where you need it to be and you can begin writing in that alignment (left, right, center).Double-click the blank area in your document in which you want your text to go – left, right or center of the page.Want to pop something into your document that’s aligned differently than the rest of it? Perhaps you’re writing a letter and want to center a line of text in an otherwise left aligned document? This tip lets you place the text in your chosen alignment immediately, so you don’t need to select it and assign alignment subsequent to writing. It takes me directly to my most recently edited word in a document, or the section I was working on when I last saved a document once I’ve opened it again.

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