Remove Formatting with Default Paragraph Font/Clear Formatting
The Problem:
Maybe I'm just dumb, but when I tried to apply the "Default Paragraph Font" to my body text paragraphs in Word 2000, the style didn't change. I tried it again, but still no good.
The Solution:
The Default Paragraph Font item in the Style drop-down list and Style dialog box looks like a style, but in fact it's not: what it actually does is remove any additional formatting that has been applied to the paragraph so that it matches the current style definition. (You might also say that it simply reapplies the current style to the paragraph.)
Tip: Press Ctrl+Spacebar to restore the font formatting of a selection to the style's default font formatting. Press Ctrl+Q to restore the paragraph formatting of a selection to the style's paragraph formatting.