How to Reveal and Adjust Text Formatting

The Styles and Formatting task pane provides you with formatting information about your document. You can also use it to modify or clear the formatting; compare the formatting of different selections, or to find blocks of text with similar formatting.
To access this task pane, click the Format menu and select Styles and Formatting. When Available formatting is selected in the Show box in this task pane, you can see the formatting used in your document, including styles you’ve created and default heading styles. You can also show all styles in the task pane, or define a custom view.

To make adjustments to the formatting in your Word document:

1. Click on the Format menu and select Reveal Formatting.
2. Select the text whose formatting you want to review. The formatting information appears in the Reveal Formatting task pane.
3. You have several formatting options:

• To change any formatting properties, such as the font, click the hyperlinked text in the task pane, and then change any options you want in the dialog box that appears.
• To determine the formatting source, such as whether the formatting comes from a style, select the Distinguish style source check box.
• To show formatting marks, such as paragraph marks and tabs, select the Show all formatting marks check box.
• To format a text selection so it matches the text that surrounds it, select the text. Point to the Selected text box, click the arrow, and then click Apply Formatting of Surrounding Text.
• To view a feature-by-feature comparison of your text selection with another block of text, select the Compare to another section check box and then select another block of text.

Note: It’s easy to select all text with the same formatting in your document using the Styles and Formatting task pane. This can be helpful for viewing the text, changing its formatting, or deleting it. To select all text with the same formatting, open the Styles and Formatting task pane, and then, in your document, click a word that’s formatted like the text you want to select. (The formatting description appears under Formatting of selected text in the Styles and Formatting task pane.) In the Styles and Formatting task pane, click Select All.

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