[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

It may help you to reverse what I do to clean up documents when, as in your
case, wiping out all formatting is not an option.

Turn on keep track of formatting in Word options and go to styles pane
Options (in W2007). In the section of the dialog that says "formatting to
show as styles" put a check in the box before Paragraph level formatting.

Create a normal paragraph and apply formatting (say 14 pt bold ) that is the
same as one of your user-defined styles. An entry will appear in the style
pane that says something like "+ 14 pt bold" ("Normal" does not always
appear. For other styles with manual formatting, the style name always
appears before the plus sign.)

In the styles pane, select all instances of the user-defined style you
duplicated, then apply the normal + formatting you just created.

Do this for any style that you want to change to normal + formatting.

Note that this will break your heading numbering, so my may want to convert
those numbers to text before you begin. As an aside, I have found that
using multilevel list numbering linked to styles, though sometimes tricky to
set up, is a reliable and easy way to apply and fix heading numbering.

HTH,
Pam

wrote:
I have a long document with multiple Word Styles. The company I am
working with is clueless as to how to work with them and asked me to
remove them

Is there a way to "remove" the styles from the document while having
the underlying text maintain the formatting of the styles.

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