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AUTOMATIC STYLE DELECTION
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Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . .. . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it? |
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AUTOMATIC STYLE DELECTION
You cannot _delete_ built-in styles. You can control their visibility,
however, using the Manage Styles dialog and Options, both of which are located at the bottom of the Styles pane. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, then click the 3rd (from the left) tool at the bottom of the Styles pane for Manage Styles, or click the Options text to see additional choices. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... Hi, Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . . . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it? |
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AUTOMATIC STYLE DELECTION
My concern is that:
styles proliferate a surplus of styles can adversely affect performance/file reliability DTP programs address these issues by supplying an option to remove unused styles in one go. I don't want to hide the critters; I want go get rid of them without having to trawl through each style, searching to see if it's used in the document and then manually deleting it if it isn't. Surely someone has created a macro to do this? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You cannot _delete_ built-in styles. You can control their visibility, however, using the Manage Styles dialog and Options, both of which are located at the bottom of the Styles pane. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, then click the 3rd (from the left) tool at the bottom of the Styles pane for Manage Styles, or click the Options text to see additional choices. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... Hi, Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . . . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it? |
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AUTOMATIC STYLE DELECTION
I repeat: you cannot _delete_ built-in styles. No macro can overrule this.
The best you can do is hide them. There is a fixed number of built-in styles. They do not proliferate. Any styles that are proliferating would be user-created, and those can be deleted... and it would be fairly trivial to write a macro to go through the list and delete user-created styles that are not in use. To delete built-in styles, however, you'd need to add magic to your macro, and I don't believe the VBA Magical API has been released yet. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... My concern is that: styles proliferate a surplus of styles can adversely affect performance/file reliability DTP programs address these issues by supplying an option to remove unused styles in one go. I don't want to hide the critters; I want go get rid of them without having to trawl through each style, searching to see if it's used in the document and then manually deleting it if it isn't. Surely someone has created a macro to do this? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You cannot _delete_ built-in styles. You can control their visibility, however, using the Manage Styles dialog and Options, both of which are located at the bottom of the Styles pane. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, then click the 3rd (from the left) tool at the bottom of the Styles pane for Manage Styles, or click the Options text to see additional choices. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... Hi, Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . . . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it? |
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My original query didn't say anything about deleting built-in styles. You
assumed this. Actually, I want to get rid of user-created styles. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I repeat: you cannot _delete_ built-in styles. No macro can overrule this. The best you can do is hide them. There is a fixed number of built-in styles. They do not proliferate. Any styles that are proliferating would be user-created, and those can be deleted... and it would be fairly trivial to write a macro to go through the list and delete user-created styles that are not in use. To delete built-in styles, however, you'd need to add magic to your macro, and I don't believe the VBA Magical API has been released yet. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... My concern is that: styles proliferate a surplus of styles can adversely affect performance/file reliability DTP programs address these issues by supplying an option to remove unused styles in one go. I don't want to hide the critters; I want go get rid of them without having to trawl through each style, searching to see if it's used in the document and then manually deleting it if it isn't. Surely someone has created a macro to do this? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You cannot _delete_ built-in styles. You can control their visibility, however, using the Manage Styles dialog and Options, both of which are located at the bottom of the Styles pane. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, then click the 3rd (from the left) tool at the bottom of the Styles pane for Manage Styles, or click the Options text to see additional choices. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... Hi, Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . . . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it? |
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AUTOMATIC STYLE DELECTION
Right-click on the style name in the Styles panel and choose Delete.
Herb probably expected you'd already thought of doing this but found it didn't work on built-ins. On Mar 22, 10:17*am, Subligaria wrote: My original query didn't say anything about deleting built-in styles. You assumed this. Actually, I want to get rid of user-created styles. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I repeat: you cannot _delete_ built-in styles. No macro can overrule this. The best you can do is hide them. There is a fixed number of built-in styles. They do not proliferate. Any styles that are proliferating would be user-created, and those can be deleted... and it would be fairly trivial to write a macro to go through the list and delete user-created styles that are not in use. To delete built-in styles, however, you'd need to add magic to your macro, and I don't believe the VBA Magical API has been released yet. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web:http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... My concern is that: styles proliferate a surplus of styles can adversely affect performance/file reliability DTP programs address these issues by supplying an option to remove unused styles in one go. I don't want to hide the critters; I want go get rid of them without having to trawl through each style, searching to see if it's used in the document and then manually deleting it if it isn't. Surely someone has created a macro to do this? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You cannot _delete_ built-in styles. You can control their visibility, however, using the Manage Styles dialog and Options, both of which are located at the bottom of the Styles pane. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, then click the 3rd (from the left) tool at the bottom of the Styles pane for Manage Styles, or click the Options text to see additional choices. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web:http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... Hi, Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . . . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it?- |
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I have a macro I use to delete unused (user-defined) styles. It's a great
boon for cleanup. I got it he http://blog.editorium.com/2004/08/25...unused-styles/ PamC Subligaria wrote: My original query didn't say anything about deleting built-in styles. You assumed this. Actually, I want to get rid of user-created styles. I repeat: you cannot _delete_ built-in styles. No macro can overrule this. The best you can do is hide them. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] that will do it? -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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I presumed from the phrasing "unused styles" that you must have been talking
about built-in styles, since--if they're unused--how did they get there? In any case, you can delete them in a variety of ways, but I find the Organizer to be a handy way to do it, since it also provides access to the underlying template--and deleting them there is the best way to make sure they don't show up again in new documents based on that template. In the Developer tab, click Document Template, then click the Organizer button. In the Styles tab, click on the style you want to delete (in the current document or the template it's based on), then click the Delete button. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... My original query didn't say anything about deleting built-in styles. You assumed this. Actually, I want to get rid of user-created styles. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I repeat: you cannot _delete_ built-in styles. No macro can overrule this. The best you can do is hide them. There is a fixed number of built-in styles. They do not proliferate. Any styles that are proliferating would be user-created, and those can be deleted... and it would be fairly trivial to write a macro to go through the list and delete user-created styles that are not in use. To delete built-in styles, however, you'd need to add magic to your macro, and I don't believe the VBA Magical API has been released yet. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... My concern is that: styles proliferate a surplus of styles can adversely affect performance/file reliability DTP programs address these issues by supplying an option to remove unused styles in one go. I don't want to hide the critters; I want go get rid of them without having to trawl through each style, searching to see if it's used in the document and then manually deleting it if it isn't. Surely someone has created a macro to do this? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You cannot _delete_ built-in styles. You can control their visibility, however, using the Manage Styles dialog and Options, both of which are located at the bottom of the Styles pane. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, then click the 3rd (from the left) tool at the bottom of the Styles pane for Manage Styles, or click the Options text to see additional choices. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Subligaria" wrote in message ... Hi, Does anyone know of a way to automate the deletion of unused styles in Word 2007? Professional DTP programs have this feature but not, apparently, Word . . . If Word doesn't come with a way to do this, does anyone know of a macro that will do it? |
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