[JimV]

I don't know what happened, I'm now in a world of word style complexity I
want to leave. In my old world, I had 4 pre-defined styles, I used those
styles. Those were the only styles in my menu and I was happy. If I modified
them, that was fine.

In this new world, any change I make to a style results in a new style. So I
have dozens of them listed now. I know there's a setting somewhere to turn
this off. But word doesn't make finding it easy. I'm slogging through help
screen after help screen.

Is there any easy way to go back to the old way? (I'm sure the new way is
better and I'm preventing myself from realizign all sorts of benefits. But
I'm just used to the basic old way where I don't have to scroll to find the
header 2 style I created.)

Thanks!

[Jay Freedman]

If you're referring to styles like "Normal + Italic", go to Tools Options
Edit and uncheck the option for "Keep track of formatting".

These things aren't really styles, and turning off that setting will
suppress their display in the Styles dropdown and in the Style & Formatting
pane.

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JimV wrote:
I don't know what happened, I'm now in a world of word style
complexity I want to leave. In my old world, I had 4 pre-defined
styles, I used those styles. Those were the only styles in my menu
and I was happy. If I modified them, that was fine.

In this new world, any change I make to a style results in a new
style. So I have dozens of them listed now. I know there's a setting
somewhere to turn this off. But word doesn't make finding it easy.
I'm slogging through help screen after help screen.

Is there any easy way to go back to the old way? (I'm sure the new
way is better and I'm preventing myself from realizign all sorts of
benefits. But I'm just used to the basic old way where I don't have
to scroll to find the header 2 style I created.)

Thanks!