Hi,

I've spent half an hour trying to work out how the dropdown list entries
work at the bottom of the Styles and Formatting task pane and I give up. I
checked the help file but it really didn't help. The entries on the list are
as follows:

-Available Formatting
-Formatting in Use
-Available Styles
-All Styles
-Custom

When you click Custom, the "Format Settings" dialog box appears. This dialog
box seems to let you do the following:
1. Define the styles that you want to appear on the Available Styles list
(from a list of all styles, you select the check box next to each one you
want to be shown on the Available Styles list).
2. Define the styles that you want to appear on the All Styles list (from a
list of all styles, you select the check box next to each one you want to be
shown on the All Styles list). (I find this somewhat bizarre.)
3. Choose what styles you want to show in the Styles and Formatting pane
(with Custom showing as the selected list). Note that if you change to
another list, you cannot get the original list back directly; instead, the
""Format Settings" dialog box appears. When creating a custom list you start
off by selecting one of the following selections:
-Available styles
-Styles in use
-All styles
-User-defined styles
-Do not show styles

(If you choose Available styles or All styles you are effectively changing
the associated lists at the same time as described in 1 and 2.)

Is my understanding correct? If so, this functionality really could do with
a usability review! If not, please enlighten me!

Also, I don't understand why anyone would click Custom and then choose "Do
not show styles"...

....and while "User-defined styles" and "Styles in use" are pretty clear, I
have a question related to the latter: I have read various articles that
claim "Styles in use" is not well named as it also shows styles that have
been applied to a doc and later removed. Is this still what happens in Word
2003?.


Thanks,

Adrian