Have you ever opened a document in MS-Word to find that it is not formatted the way you want?

Well the secret keyboard combination to ‘stripping’ the formatting is Ctrl + Shift + N.

Now be careful not to press Ctrl + N as this will open a new document and you will get a fright as you may think that Word has deleted your document!!!

Ctrl + Shift + N works on the paragraph your cursor is in, so if you want to do the whole document at once, try pressing Ctrl + A (to select the whole document) and then try Ctrl + Shift + N.

NB: The originator may have done so much formatting that you may need to do this keyboard combination several times in a paragraph to remove all the formatting!!!

Quick disclaimer: depending upon how the style of “normal” is constructed you may still not like the formatting that happens but at least you will have non-formatted document to work with.