[Jules[_3_]]

You can save your styles as quick style set and save your template with that
style set as the default. You can also stop users from switching
themes/quick style sets in your template.

"Andy Fish" wrote in message
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thanks for the tip.

Because I have pruned out most of the unnecessary styles from my document,
it only seems to show the ones I want so this works for me

though why there isn't a simple way to do this with the quick style
gallery is a mystery.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Note, however, that the Styles dropdown shows way more styles than most
people are interested in *and* shows them graphically (and there's no
option to change the latter).

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

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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"Andy Fish" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a document with 10 or so styles that I work with regularly. In
word
2003 and before there is a drop-down list of styles which I can use to
just select the style for the current paragraph, which is nice and
easy.

however, in word 2007 this seems to have been replaced by the "quick
styles" toolbar which contains the standard built-in styles (which I
don't
use). I spent about 1/2 an hour changing this to have my styles in it
but
the next time I came to use the word it was all set back again (or
maybe
the quick styles list is stored per document - I don't know)

at the moment, the only way I can easily select the styles for
paragraphs
as I'm editing the document is to have the styles window open on the
right
hand side of the document the whole time.

so what i'm looking for is a way to either (a) show the drop down
styles
list like previous versions of word, or (b) have the quick styles
toolbar
show the styles that are defined in the document rather than the
microsoft
built in ones


You can add the old Style box to the Quick Access Toolbar, via Office
button
| Word Options, Customize category. Under "Choose commands from," pick
"Commands Not in the Ribbon" and locate the Style command (the screen
tip
shows StyleGalleryClassic). Click the Add button to display it on the
QAT.
When you are done, click OK to close the dialog box.

As you've noticed, when you create a so-called Quick Style it is created
for the current document only. You can add it to the template by
modifying the style, making sure to choose the "New documents based on
this template" option before clicking OK.

To modify a style: Right-click its name in the Styles pane (or in the
Styles group of the Home ribbon), and choose Modify from the context
menu.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP