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Clearing text and formatting in a cell, copying cell format
Clear format
In the Spreadsheet Editor, you can quickly remove the text or format from the selected cell. To do that,
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Select a cell, a cell range with the mouse or the whole worksheet by pressing the Ctrl+A key combination.
You can also select multiple non-adjacent cells or cell ranges by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting cells/ranges with the mouse.
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Click the
Clear icon on the Home tab of the top toolbar and select one of the available options:
- use the All option if you wish to remove everything including the text, format, function, etc.;
- use the Text option if you wish to remove the text from the selected range of cell range;
- use the Format option if you wish to remove the format of the selected cell range. The text and all functions will remain;
- use the Comments option if you wish to remove comments from the selected cell range;
- use the Links option if you wish to remove links from the selected cell range.
All these options are also available in the right-click menu.
Copy cell format
You can quickly copy the format of a certain cell and apply it to other cells.
To apply the copied format to a single cell or several adjacent cells:
- Select the cell/cell range with the required format by clicking or using the keyboard.
- Click the
Copy style icon on the Home tab of the top toolbar, (the mouse pointer will look like this
). - Select the cell/cell range to apply the required format to.
To apply the copied format to multiple non-adjacent cells or cell ranges:
- Select the cell/cell range with the required format by clicking or using the keyboard.
- Double-click the
Copy style icon on the Home tab of the top toolbar, (the mouse pointer will look like this
and the Copy style icon will remain selected:
). - Click the required cells or select the cell ranges one by one to apply the same format to all of them.
- To exit this mode, click the
Copy style icon once again or press the Esc key on the keyboard.
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