5 Handy Steps to Clear Formatting from an Email in Outlook

Aug 9
08:53

2016

Lisa Heydon

Lisa Heydon

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Communicating via emails is the fastest way to share information among people from your laptop or desktop. You can send/receive important files, photos, and other necessary information without compromising security. The facility to copy and paste data into Outlook email client from a web page...

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Communicating via emails is the fastest way to share information among people from your laptop or desktop. You can send/receive important files,5 Handy Steps to Clear Formatting from an Email in Outlook Articles photos, and other necessary information without compromising security.  The facility to copy and paste data into Outlook email client from a web page, word document or the Excel spreadsheet is one of the best ways to send information to your contacts.

But it may not be a professional behavior if you add the information that contains different format styles in your email body. So, you may have tried to remove individually all the formatting elements that can be more frustrating. The following guide will show you the most reliable method for eliminating the formatting from the element selected in an Outlook email. To get the step wise solution, you can also call at Microsoft outlook help phone number.

 

How to Remove Formatting From an Email

Before following the steps, assure that you are writing an email message in Outlook 2013, and you have applied the improper formatting to the email part. It happens most often when you just copy and paste the information from other places into an email message body. When you remove the formatting from the selected text, as a result, it will revert to the default format you are typing the new email messages. Here’s know how to do it.

  1. The first thing you need to do is open your email where you want to apply to this action.
  2. Using your mouse, select the text in the message body for which you want to remove the formatting.
  3. If you want to choose the complete message body, then click somewhere in the body and then press the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut at the same time to highlight the texts. You can also use the mouse to select the text.
  4. Subsequently, click on the ‘Message’ tab located at the Window upper side.
  5. Now, click on the ‘Clear All Formatting’ button located under the ‘Basic Text’ tab.

Keep in mind that it doesn’t clear hyperlinks.  So, if you want to clear hyperlinks from an email in Outlook, then click on the link right side, and then hit the ‘Remove Hyperlink’ option. However, if you find any difficulties to access all options and tabs in the email, contact the Microsoft Outlook support number listed in the Contactforhelp to get the best possible solution for all your hassles.