[Elmo Watson]

When I go into or start what I know will be a long document, I usually add
styles to the page. However - almost every time something is formatted in
the page (in some area that is not covered by a style), MS Word (2003) adds
that formatting automatically to the style list. How can I turn this off, so
I can only have a list of styles that I define?

[Jay Freedman]

In Tools Options Edit, uncheck the one for "Keep track of formatting".

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Elmo Watson wrote:
When I go into or start what I know will be a long document, I
usually add styles to the page. However - almost every time something
is formatted in the page (in some area that is not covered by a
style), MS Word (2003) adds that formatting automatically to the
style list. How can I turn this off, so I can only have a list of
styles that I define?