FWIW, the Styles list on the Formatting toolbar has a plain-text display;
you may find this preferable to the task pane. An unformatted styles list in
the task pane has been requested for Word 12.

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"Coder Droid" wrote in
message ...
Is there a way to surpress (some or all of) the wysiwyg formatting in
the styles list? It's a cool feature at first, but after a while I know
what each of my styles does and it looks tremendously busy. It would be
nice if I could just get them all displayed normally.

Or, even better: display the style, but have them display the same size
and left-justified.

Probably just wishful thinking...

--cd