Completely clear all formatting of a range in Excel

In Excel, you can apply the Clear Formats function to quickly clear only the formatting that’s applied to selected cells, and it cannot clear the formatting that’s applied to the data or contents. But with Kutools for Excel’s Clear All Cell Format, you can quickly clear all formatting from a range, no matter the formatting that’s applied to the cells or the contents in Excel.

Usage:

1. Select a range that you want to clear all cell formatting.

2. Click Kutools >> Format Tools >> Clear All Cell Format, see screenshots:

3. Click Yes button. All of the cell formats have been removed completely. See screenshots:

The differences between Kutools for Excel’s Clear All Cell Format and Excel’s Clear Formats:

In the following screenshot, you will see there are two cells, the cell 1 which has been applied the font color BLUE. But the cell 2 is using the font color BLACK, but the some contents in this cell have been applied to other font colors. See screenshot:

Let’s see what will happen after applying both functions.

After applying Excel’s Clear Formats:

After applying Kutools for Excel’s Clear All Cell Format:

As you can see, the Clear Formats in Excel won’t clear the formatting that’s applied to the contents.

This is only one feature of Kutools for Excel

It includes more than 120 functions and tools for Excel 2013, 2010, 2007 and Office 365.