FWIW, the ability to turn off WYSIWYG for the style display in both the Task
Pane and the Style list has been requested for the next release of Office.
I'll very disappointed if this doesn't happen!

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Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"Coder Droid" wrote in
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: There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed.
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: We must be looking at different things. This is the style dropdown on
: the formatting toolbar, right? Mine is wysiwyg. It's as busy and hard to
: read as the task pane.
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: Screenshot:
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: http://www.image-bucket.com/images/c...oid/styles.png
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