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Prevent creation of new styles
If you apply formatting to text then Word automatically adds a new item to
the list of formatting in use for that document. This may result in hundreds of different but similar styles being used throughout the document. Is it possible to turn this feature off, either on the local machine or globally through group policies etc? Or using VBA Or is it just a case of trying to educate users to restrict themselves to a limited number of styles throughout the document? thanks for your help on this. Carl |
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Hi ?B?Q2FybFNwcmFrZQ==?=,
If you apply formatting to text then Word automatically adds a new item to the list of formatting in use for that document. This may result in hundreds of different but similar styles being used throughout the document. Is it possible to turn this feature off, either on the local machine or globally through group policies etc? Or using VBA Or is it just a case of trying to educate users to restrict themselves to a limited number of styles throughout the document? Basically, it's the last. You can turn off "Keep track of formatting" in Tools/Options/Edit, which will take it out of the styles list. But in the background Word will still be doing this - it's how Word works. It was made visible like this to help people realize they could re-use existing formats, and try to reduce the proliferation... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Prevent creation of new styles
These aren't really new styles. See he
http://shaunakelly.com/word/sfpane/S...ttingPane.html (Big Idea #4--you can turn this listing off) On 9/14/06 7:13 AM, "CarlSprake" wrote: If you apply formatting to text then Word automatically adds a new item to the list of formatting in use for that document. This may result in hundreds of different but similar styles being used throughout the document. Is it possible to turn this feature off, either on the local machine or globally through group policies etc? Or using VBA Or is it just a case of trying to educate users to restrict themselves to a limited number of styles throughout the document? thanks for your help on this. Carl -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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