Part of what you're seeing in the Styles and Formatting dialog (or Styles
dropdown) is probably "formatting" rather than styles. You can cut out a lot
of this underbrush by clearing the check box for "Keep track of formatting"
on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. Applying correct styles should remove
the direct formatting; if it doesn't, selecting the text and pressing
Ctrl+Spacebar and Ctrl+Q will certainly do so.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Khoshravan" wrote in message
...
My impression
I read the tutorial written by Charles Kyle Kenyon in
http://addbalance.com/
about the importance of style. I was aware of that and have used styles to
some extent but after reading that I have decided not to make a file
(especially a long one) without using styles.

My problem
My boss has given a 500 page word file in 12 files standing for 12
chapters
of a report. He has asked me to amend different spacing and fonts in
different parts of the report and make it unique to look same. I thought
using the style could be the best solution. Original files dont have
styles.
When I open the style box many ugly hand-formatted styles with no name
occurs. I thought it would be possible to select paragraphs and change
their
styles from style window but it didnt work as I think the main style are
same but different paragraphs has minor changes. So what is your
suggestion
for me? Shall I define a new style and go through all paragraphs and
change
them? Is there any VBA solution to it automatically?
Also one more question: I want to know about the general fee of those who
do
this job as paid consultancy. TIA

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Rasoul Khoshravan Azar
Civil Engineer
Osaka, Japan