Can I change the style default in Normal.dot so every time I start a new
document the styles I chose will be there and not the original styles? If
not, what would be the easiest way to accomplish a standardized list of
styles?

You can't get rid of the built-in styles, or at least not the heading
styles. You can modify them, though. You can also change what the default
style is in a new document based on normal.dot. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/defaultfont.htm for information on how to
change your default style. You may also want to look at "How to change the
default settings for Word documents"
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Jen Klenda" Jen wrote in message
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Can I change the style default in Normal.dot so every time I start a new
document the styles I chose will be there and not the original styles? If
not, what would be the easiest way to accomplish a standardized list of
styles?

You can customize Normal.dot to your preference (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm), but
often a better approach is to create specific document templates that
contain the styles (and sometimes the text) that you want in a specific type
of document; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Jen Klenda" Jen wrote in message
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Can I change the style default in Normal.dot so every time I start a new
document the styles I chose will be there and not the original styles? If
not, what would be the easiest way to accomplish a standardized list of
styles?