[Klaus Linke]

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I believe that Word 2007 offers a way to revert to character style; at
least
this was one of the scenarios we discussed with Stuart Stuple. I forget
where to find the dialog in Word 2007, but there is a dialog that allows
you
to clear formatting selectively.

Yes, it's in the style inspector (Styles pane, bottom, middle button. Then
the last button in the "Style Inspector" dialog).

It's also a new built-in command (available for customization or keyboard
shortcut): RestoreCharacterStyle.

The other three new commands on the style inspector:
ParagraphRemoveStyle (applies Normal style, similar to "NormalStyle" Ctrl+N,
but does *not* clobber manual character or paragraph formatting),
RestoreParagraphStyle (seems to do pretty much the same as "ResetPara"
Ctrl+Q, or reapplying the style: removes manual paragraph formatting),
CharacterRemoveStyle (removes character styles including their formatting
from the selection, but leaves manual font formatting).

I'd hoped for a way to delete/remove character styles without changing the
formatting (that is, turning it into manual formatting), and similarly a way
to delete/apply a different paragraph style without changing the formatting.
Maybe in the next version? Or maybe something for Add-In developpers?

At least in Word2007, if you delete a paragraph or a character style, you
can choose that the text should revert to the base style (that is, it won't
necessarily revert to Normal, or DPF, as in previous versions). Kudos for
that!

Greetings,
Klaus