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Delete Styles
How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style.
But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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G'Day Hague,
There is a button (Styles and Formatting) at the extreme left of the Formatting toolbar. Click this to see the Style and Formatting Pane. Right-click a style, and choose Delete. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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Thanks Pat,
I've been deleting styles in my document 1 at a time. I was hoping I could get Word to stop applying new styles everytime I made formatting changes. It's especially frustrating when you copy from one document to another, you bring everything with you. I've got a couple styles (Bullets) that I can't delete (the delete command is dull in color). When I ask for Bullets in the Toolbar, this very large bullet and font appears - not sure where it came from, but it can't be deleted. I'd like some control over this. All I can think of is to be able to turn Styles Off. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day Hague, There is a button (Styles and Formatting) at the extreme left of the Formatting toolbar. Click this to see the Style and Formatting Pane. Right-click a style, and choose Delete. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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These aren't really styles--just "formatting." If you don't want to be
reproached by them, clear the check box for "Keep track of formatting" on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Hague2" wrote in message news Thanks Pat, I've been deleting styles in my document 1 at a time. I was hoping I could get Word to stop applying new styles everytime I made formatting changes. It's especially frustrating when you copy from one document to another, you bring everything with you. I've got a couple styles (Bullets) that I can't delete (the delete command is dull in color). When I ask for Bullets in the Toolbar, this very large bullet and font appears - not sure where it came from, but it can't be deleted. I'd like some control over this. All I can think of is to be able to turn Styles Off. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day Hague, There is a button (Styles and Formatting) at the extreme left of the Formatting toolbar. Click this to see the Style and Formatting Pane. Right-click a style, and choose Delete. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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Uncheck the option to keep track of formatting. Note, you can't turn off
styles; if you are going to use Word, you are best off learning how to use them instead of trying to fight them. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm -- 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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So how do you get rid of all the Word styles that were used by the last one
in the document? I only use styles I created and don't need to see an endless list of Headings. I deleted all of the ones that I could. I don't have the toolsoptionformatting check box--perhaps b/c I'm on 97. Thanks! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Uncheck the option to keep track of formatting. Note, you can't turn off styles; if you are going to use Word, you are best off learning how to use them instead of trying to fight them. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm -- 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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That's it? I'll give it a try. The next person that replied stated the
formatting changes where not styles? Thanks again! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: These aren't really styles--just "formatting." If you don't want to be reproached by them, clear the check box for "Keep track of formatting" on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Hague2" wrote in message news Thanks Pat, I've been deleting styles in my document 1 at a time. I was hoping I could get Word to stop applying new styles everytime I made formatting changes. It's especially frustrating when you copy from one document to another, you bring everything with you. I've got a couple styles (Bullets) that I can't delete (the delete command is dull in color). When I ask for Bullets in the Toolbar, this very large bullet and font appears - not sure where it came from, but it can't be deleted. I'd like some control over this. All I can think of is to be able to turn Styles Off. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day Hague, There is a button (Styles and Formatting) at the extreme left of the Formatting toolbar. Click this to see the Style and Formatting Pane. Right-click a style, and choose Delete. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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Delete Styles
If the Styles change documents for you, you can't HELP but notice them!
Experienced users don't need the help and they become a huge hindrance. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day Holly, I don't need to see an endless list of Fonts..... I don't need to see an endless list of ClipArt..... I don't need to see an endless list of Styles..... I don't need to see an endless list of AutoCorrects..... I don't need to see an endless list of Templates..... I don't need to see an endless list of Word Docs..... I don't need to see an endless list of Symbols..... I don't need to see an endless list of Diagrams..... I don't need to see an endless list of Bullets..... I don't need to see an endless list of Borders..... I don't need to see an endless list of ListsLikeThis..... So, unless I need 'em, I don't look!! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Holly on 97" Holly on wrote in message news So how do you get rid of all the Word styles that were used by the last one in the document? I only use styles I created and don't need to see an endless list of Headings. I deleted all of the ones that I could. I don't have the toolsoptionformatting check box--perhaps b/c I'm on 97. Thanks! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Uncheck the option to keep track of formatting. Note, you can't turn off styles; if you are going to use Word, you are best off learning how to use them instead of trying to fight them. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm -- 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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Delete Styles
Recent versions give you full control over which styles to show or hide, but
in Word 97 you will have to do this: Copy the file, not including the final paragraph mark, into a new blank document. Only styles explicitly applied to text will now be considered "in use" by Word. (The top three heading levels are an exception to this rule, as they are always displayed.) To have Word only show the styles that are in use, set the "Category" in Format | Styles to "Styles in use." Note: To copy the contents except for the final paragraph mark, you can press Ctrl+A, and then Shift+Left arrow (selects), and finally Ctrl+C (copies). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Diana" wrote in message news If the Styles change documents for you, you can't HELP but notice them! Experienced users don't need the help and they become a huge hindrance. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day Holly, I don't need to see an endless list of Fonts..... I don't need to see an endless list of ClipArt..... I don't need to see an endless list of Styles..... I don't need to see an endless list of AutoCorrects..... I don't need to see an endless list of Templates..... I don't need to see an endless list of Word Docs..... I don't need to see an endless list of Symbols..... I don't need to see an endless list of Diagrams..... I don't need to see an endless list of Bullets..... I don't need to see an endless list of Borders..... I don't need to see an endless list of ListsLikeThis..... So, unless I need 'em, I don't look!! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Holly on 97" Holly on wrote in message news So how do you get rid of all the Word styles that were used by the last one in the document? I only use styles I created and don't need to see an endless list of Headings. I deleted all of the ones that I could. I don't have the toolsoptionformatting check box--perhaps b/c I'm on 97. Thanks! "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Uncheck the option to keep track of formatting. Note, you can't turn off styles; if you are going to use Word, you are best off learning how to use them instead of trying to fight them. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm -- 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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Hague2" wrote in message ... How do you turn off Styles. I know you have to start with a Normal style. But everytime I add character or paragraph formatting a new style is created. The list gets longer and longer. I don't want to automatically apply new styles, unless I ask for them. I've removed the check mark "Define styles based on your formatting" in the AutoFormat As You Type Dialog Box. Are the Styles displayed in the Formatting Toolbar's drop-down list the same as the Styles and Formatting Task Pane? I want to delete the Styles I'm not using. How do I do this? Thanks |
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