Remove Formatting strips bold, colour, odd fonts, and stray styling from the selected text. A press of Cmd/Ctrl + backslash is the fastest fix for text you pasted in from a website or a document that brought its formatting along.
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Remove formatting Gmail Shortcut Tutorial
Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Gmail shortcut Remove formatting:
1. First, open your Gmail account in your web browser.
2. In the top right corner, click on the gear icon and select “Settings” from the drop-down menu.
3. In the Settings menu, scroll down until you find the “Keyboard Shortcuts” section.
4. Click on the radio button next to “Keyboard shortcuts on” to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the Settings menu and click “Save Changes” to apply the new keyboard shortcuts setting.
6. Now, compose a new email or open an email that you want to remove formatting from.
7. Highlight the text that you want to remove formatting from by clicking and dragging your mouse over it.
8. Once the text is selected, press the following keys on your keyboard: Ctrl + (on Windows or Linux) or Command + (on Mac).
9. You’ll see that the formatting of the selected text has been removed, leaving it plain and simple.
You can also let CMDK handle this for you. It turns Gmail’s keyboard shortcuts on automatically and adds dozens more, so Remove Formatting and the rest just work from the first day.
Make every keystroke count
Learning Remove Formatting is worth it, but you do not have to stop there. CMDK turns Gmail into an inbox you run entirely from the keyboard: more than 80 shortcuts, a command bar for any action, snooze you can type in plain English, a tabbed split inbox, and one-key sender nuke. Add it to Chrome and keep your hands off the mouse.
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