To remove local formatting from a paragraph

[Mike Wickham]

>> And how can I be sure that any particular paragraph has remained
>> unmodified?
>
> In the status bar, there is an asterisk next to the paragraph format name.

That sounds like you are saying the opposite of what I'm sure you meant. The 
asterisk shows that a paragraph has been modified. Unmodified paragraphs 
lack the asterisk.

Mike Wickham