[Charles Moore]

Using Word 2003, I have created a document by combining several other
documents by cutting and pasting from the source documents to my document.
With each paste, the styles list grows and grows. I have reformatted the
resulting document so that only a very few styles remain in use. Is there
any easy way to purge the unused styles? I have tried the "Organizer" from
the Styles menu but it didn't seem to do anything. There are far too many to
delete one by one by hand! Is there anything like AutoCAD's "purge" command
that goes through a drawing file and deletes all layers, blocks, etc. that
are not used in the drawing?
Suggestions?

[TedMi]

Format Styles and Formatting

At the bottom of the right-hand pane, select Show Styles in Use
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TedMi

[Henk57[_222_]]

Charles Moore;2864471 Wrote:
Using Word 2003, I have created a document by combining several other
documents by cutting and pasting from the source documents to my
document.
With each paste, the styles list grows and grows. I have reformatted
the
resulting document so that only a very few styles remain in use. Is
there
any easy way to purge the unused styles? I have tried the "Organizer"
from
the Styles menu but it didn't seem to do anything. There are far too
many to
delete one by one by hand! Is there anything like AutoCAD's "purge"
command
that goes through a drawing file and deletes all layers, blocks, etc.
that
are not used in the drawing?
Suggestions?

Well, you can make styles "invisible", but I don't know of a way to
delete an entire group of styles. If you simply want them removed from
yr visible list, go to the Styles pane, Show [Custom...] (under the
list), and tick only the ones you need to see.




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Henk57

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

I use a macro that I got from the Editorium to remove *truly* unused styles:

http://lists.topica.com/lists/editor...mid=1717381416

As you've discovered, Word considers a style to be in use if it was ever in
use in the document (or any of its parents). So after the cleanup of a
multiauthor, multicomputer doc, you could have a couple dozen styles that are
just clutter.

HTH,
PamC

Henk57 wrote:
Charles Moore;2864471 Wrote:
Using Word 2003, I have created a document by combining several other
documents by cutting and pasting from the source documents to m
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are not used in the drawing?
Suggestions?

Well, you can make styles "invisible", but I don't know of a way t
delete an entire group of styles. If you simply want them removed fro
yr visible list, go to the Styles pane, Show [Custom...] (under th
list), and tick only the ones you need to see

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Henk57

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