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# 💨 Remove Text Formatting in Gmail
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-36/
- Published: 2022-07-12T03:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T13:13:26.000Z
- Description: #36
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Gmail

## 🤔 What is it?

- Within Gmail, the button that has the “T” with the slash through it is actually a useful formatting tool: it clears any and all text formatting

## 🤷🏻 When should I use this?

1. We often copy and paste text from a website, a doc, or another email when we’re composing within Gmail; having the same format throughout your email makes it less of a jarring experience for the recipient
2. *(Of course, I should point out that another best practice is to simply *paste without formatting* directly - CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + V - but we sometimes forget* 😉)
3. Highlight the text you want to remove formatting for. Then, click the T button with the slash through it!

## 📸 Instructions

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/07/image.png)

Highlight text and click the clear formatting button

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2022/07/image-1.png)

And now your entire email has the same text formatting!

## ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut

- CMD or CTRL + \\ to clear formatting directly

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