[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you apply Normal style to the entire document, then copy/paste the
content to a new file, you should lose the extraneous styles and formatting.
But this is a pretty drastic thing to do unless you really want to start
from scratch.

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

"removing all headers and footers"
t.com wrote in message
...
thanks. That is true. Many of them are formatting entries. What is the
best
way to get them all into Times Roman 12, etc. Will doing a normal style
for
the whole mss. do it? Is it possible to put a sample of my mss in these
questions?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools |
Options, then a lot of the "styles" you're seeing are not really styles,
just "formatting."

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

"removing all headers and footers"
t.com wrote in message
...
I am doing so much revision that they will have to redo all codes
anyway,
but
it is a mess to work with as every change I make tends to alter the
fonts
,
etc. How do I get rid of all these styles?

"Beth Melton" wrote:

I'd check with the publisher before making any changes to the styles.
Many
publishers use specific styles for their publishing program, used to
generate the printed pages of the book, and if the expected styles are
not
found it the final product may not be formatted correctly.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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"removing all headers and footers"
t.com wrote in
message
...
I have a file of a book of mine to revise from my publisher in MS
Word
2003
.
It has more than 300 "CM" and other formatting styles in it, often
with
different fonts and spacing from paragraph to paragraph. Is there an
easy
way
to put the whole file into just a few styles, like one new simple
normal
style and a few heading styles, without doing them all one by one?
thanks.