Document corruption often is the culprit. I ran into that situation earlier
this week in Word 2003--the style was not in use, but refused to be deleted.
On a whim, I tried the Manage Styles dialog in Word 2007, and was successful
in zapping it. It no longer shows up in Word 2003.
Since you probably don't have Word 2007, I would try the following:
1. Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer - Styles tab. See if you can
delete the style from here.
or
2. Format - Styles and Formatting - set Show: (bottom) to Custom, enable
Save settings in template (if relevant), click Styles at the bottom, set
Category to User-defined styles, click on the style, then click Delete.
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"cindy" wrote in message
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I would like to remove a style. I try deleting it, the confirmation window
display, but style remains and is in use. I format the text that is using
that style. Does format, still using unwanted style. Tried clearing the
format for selected text. Still uses that unwanted style.
I can try deleting the style for the 100th time, but it does not delete.
Does anyone know why?