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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Style selector drop down

What version of Word do you have? In Word 2003, if you have "List font names
in their font" (Tools | Customize | Options) disabled, the styles in the
Styles dropdown are also shown unformatted (they're still formatted in the
Styles and Formatting task pane).

In Word 2007, you can choose to display the styles unformatted in the Styles
task pane, but this unfortunately doesn't carry over to the Styles dropdown,
which can't be changed. There doesn't seem to be an option not to show font
names in their font, either.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"livetohike" wrote in message
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Regarding the Style selector drop down on the tool bar:

1) The style names display in the defined style (kind of). Can I
change to display in regular text like you can for the Font selector
drop down?

2) The height of the box around each displayed style name is very
tall, thus wasting space and only allowing room for a few style names
to display. Can this be adjusted (See 1 above).

3) How does Word determine the number of Styles to display in the drop
down? Currently it shows 12 styles, but there is room for many more,
thus reducing the need to scroll around so much to find the style I
want.

4) Is there a way to get the "most/recently" used styles to show up at
the top of the list, like the Font drop down does?

Thanks