[Aeneas]

Just add the Classic Style Gallery/Styles Combo Box to the Quick Access
Toolbar:

Click the Office Button to display the Office menu
Click Word Options to display the Word Options dialog box
Click Customize in the left pane to display the Customize Quick Access
Toolbar and keyboard shortcuts pane on the right
In the Choose commands from drop-down list box, select Popular Commands
From the list below, select Style (not Styles)
Click Add
Choose where the customization is saved in the Customize Quick Access
Toolbar; by default it will be saved in Word.qat (For all documents
(default)) and will be available for all documents
Click OK

The style applied at the position of the insertion point will be displayed
in the Styles Combo Box in the Quick Access Toolbar regardless of which tab
is active.

"Ed from AZ" wrote:

I previous versions of Word, a box on one of the toolbars showed you
which style you had applied to the selected text. In 2007, though, I
can see the Styles group on the Ribbon, but not the style of the
selected text. Is there any way to show this like previous version
did without having to use several mouse clicks to get to it?

Ed