Things that look like "style name + other formatting" are not really
styles. They're artifacts produced when you have the "Keep track of
formatting" option checked in Tools Options Edit and there is direct
formatting applied in addition to the underlying style.
To get rid of the artifacts, just uncheck the option.
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Larry wrote:
Here's a fun one.
1) In Word 2003, show the Styles and Formatting pane. Set its contents
to show Available Formatting.
2) Click in a styled paragraph in the document. Let's say the
paragraph style for that text is named XYZ. IMPORTANT: Ensure that the
font scale for style XYZ is something other than 100%. Modify the
style if necessary.
3) Confirm that there are no variants of XYZ showing in the Styles and
Formatting pane.
3) Insert a textbox at the cursor point.
4) Note that there now exists an "XYZ + Font: Character scale: 100%"
format in the Styles and Formatting pane.
5) Change the style of the paragraph (where the textbox is anchored)
to some other style -- call it "ABC" -- that also does NOT have a font
scale of 100%.
6) Note that the formatting "XYZ + Font: Character scale: 100%"
disappears from the Styles and Formatting pane, and that the
formatting "ABC + Font: Character scale: 100%" appears.
Now, aside from this being a heck of a lot of fun, it's also
undesirable behaviour. Any ideas how I can get it to stop? (VBA
solutions acceptable, I'm semi-fluent.)
TIA...
--larry