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Stop Styles?
Is there any way to stop the annoying (to me, at least) proliferation of
styles in Word 2002? I usually have my own collection of styles I use and have my templates prepared accordingly. I have Styles set NOT to update or to add to the template--unless I really want to. But after working with any document for a while it seems that nearly every style ends up with multiple variations of itself. Thus Style1 begets Style1 Underline, Style1 10 pts, Style1 Italics, ad nauseam. I have never seen this problem in previous versions of Word--such as Word 2000 or even Word 97. (And if we created the Word 2002 document through scanning and OCR I get hundreds of styles!!!) |
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These are not styles but "formatting." If you don't want to be distracted by
these listings, clear the check box for "Keep track of formatting" on the Edit tab of Tools | Options. But note that they're Word's way of chastizing you for applying direct formatting to paragraphs. If you are changing a lot of paragraphs in the same way, they probably deserve a new style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "AlSchultz" wrote in message ... Is there any way to stop the annoying (to me, at least) proliferation of styles in Word 2002? I usually have my own collection of styles I use and have my templates prepared accordingly. I have Styles set NOT to update or to add to the template--unless I really want to. But after working with any document for a while it seems that nearly every style ends up with multiple variations of itself. Thus Style1 begets Style1 Underline, Style1 10 pts, Style1 Italics, ad nauseam. I have never seen this problem in previous versions of Word--such as Word 2000 or even Word 97. (And if we created the Word 2002 document through scanning and OCR I get hundreds of styles!!!) |
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