Deleting Styles

I haven't been able to find the answer to this. Is there somewhere a list of
the built-in styles that come with Word 2003? I

I'm trying to clean up style proliferation in a company that has 10 Word
users of different levels of sophistication - we share enough documents and
work in a way that can cause major proliferation of styles. I'm trying to
train people to use styles rather than direct formatting, and not to reformat
a built-in style etc. but right now don't have a list to know what is
"vanilla" - my own normal.dot having been modified.

Thanks

Choose Format - Styles and Formatting. At the bottom of the task pane, drop
down the list and choose Custom. In the Format Styles box, click Styles at
the bottom. At the top of that box, set Category to User-Defined Styles.
That's a list of all of the styles that are not built-in.

Now, set Category to All Styles. Observe the Delete button as you scroll
among the styles shown. For built-in styles, the Delete button is grayed and
unavailable. For user-created styles, Delete is available.

For another approach, click the Organizer button at the bottom of the Style
dialog box. Click the Styles tab. Under In Normal.dot, the Delete button
doesn't disappear for built-in styles. However, if you try to delete a
style, it will say "The build-in style ____ cannot be deleted".

So... there are a couple of approaches.

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"Ria_Amp" wrote in message
...
I haven't been able to find the answer to this. Is there somewhere a list
of
the built-in styles that come with Word 2003? I

I'm trying to clean up style proliferation in a company that has 10 Word
users of different levels of sophistication - we share enough documents
and
work in a way that can cause major proliferation of styles. I'm trying to
train people to use styles rather than direct formatting, and not to
reformat
a built-in style etc. but right now don't have a list to know what is
"vanilla" - my own normal.dot having been modified.

Thanks

You *can* "delete" most built-in styles. If you set the view to Styles in
Use, you can delete all but Normal, Default Paragraph Font, and any headings
that are displayed. The rest aren't really deleted; they are just reset to
their default Normal.dot formatting. I don't know why Normal and headings
can't be reset this way; it's really a nuisance, but of course renaming
Normal.dot will reset them all.

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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.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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Choose Format - Styles and Formatting. At the bottom of the task pane,
drop
down the list and choose Custom. In the Format Styles box, click Styles at
the bottom. At the top of that box, set Category to User-Defined Styles.
That's a list of all of the styles that are not built-in.

Now, set Category to All Styles. Observe the Delete button as you scroll
among the styles shown. For built-in styles, the Delete button is grayed
and
unavailable. For user-created styles, Delete is available.

For another approach, click the Organizer button at the bottom of the
Style
dialog box. Click the Styles tab. Under In Normal.dot, the Delete button
doesn't disappear for built-in styles. However, if you try to delete a
style, it will say "The build-in style ____ cannot be deleted".

So... there are a couple of approaches.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
http://www.herbtyson.com
"Ria_Amp" wrote in message
...
I haven't been able to find the answer to this. Is there somewhere a
list
of
the built-in styles that come with Word 2003? I

I'm trying to clean up style proliferation in a company that has 10 Word
users of different levels of sophistication - we share enough documents
and
work in a way that can cause major proliferation of styles. I'm trying
to
train people to use styles rather than direct formatting, and not to
reformat
a built-in style etc. but right now don't have a list to know what is
"vanilla" - my own normal.dot having been modified.

Thanks

Thank you. They sure don't make that easy to find. Note that in your
message you wrote "format styles" - it is actually Format Settings. Now I
can get rid of styles that have proliferated.

thanks

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Choose Format - Styles and Formatting. At the bottom of the task pane, drop
down the list and choose Custom. In the Format Styles box, click Styles at
the bottom. At the top of that box, set Category to User-Defined Styles.
That's a list of all of the styles that are not built-in.

Now, set Category to All Styles. Observe the Delete button as you scroll
among the styles shown. For built-in styles, the Delete button is grayed and
unavailable. For user-created styles, Delete is available.

For another approach, click the Organizer button at the bottom of the Style
dialog box. Click the Styles tab. Under In Normal.dot, the Delete button
doesn't disappear for built-in styles. However, if you try to delete a
style, it will say "The build-in style ____ cannot be deleted".

So... there are a couple of approaches.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
http://www.herbtyson.com
"Ria_Amp" wrote in message
...
I haven't been able to find the answer to this. Is there somewhere a list
of
the built-in styles that come with Word 2003? I

I'm trying to clean up style proliferation in a company that has 10 Word
users of different levels of sophistication - we share enough documents
and
work in a way that can cause major proliferation of styles. I'm trying to
train people to use styles rather than direct formatting, and not to
reformat
a built-in style etc. but right now don't have a list to know what is
"vanilla" - my own normal.dot having been modified.

Thanks

It is Format | Style in Windows versions. If you're using a Mac, you might
want to try the Mac-specific NGs starting from
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/communi...pid=newsgroups

--
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.

"Ria_Amp" wrote in message
...
Thank you. They sure don't make that easy to find. Note that in your
message you wrote "format styles" - it is actually Format Settings. Now I
can get rid of styles that have proliferated.

thanks

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Choose Format - Styles and Formatting. At the bottom of the task pane,
drop
down the list and choose Custom. In the Format Styles box, click Styles
at
the bottom. At the top of that box, set Category to User-Defined Styles.
That's a list of all of the styles that are not built-in.

Now, set Category to All Styles. Observe the Delete button as you scroll
among the styles shown. For built-in styles, the Delete button is grayed
and
unavailable. For user-created styles, Delete is available.

For another approach, click the Organizer button at the bottom of the
Style
dialog box. Click the Styles tab. Under In Normal.dot, the Delete button
doesn't disappear for built-in styles. However, if you try to delete a
style, it will say "The build-in style ____ cannot be deleted".

So... there are a couple of approaches.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
http://www.herbtyson.com
"Ria_Amp" wrote in message
...
I haven't been able to find the answer to this. Is there somewhere a
list
of
the built-in styles that come with Word 2003? I

I'm trying to clean up style proliferation in a company that has 10
Word
users of different levels of sophistication - we share enough
documents
and
work in a way that can cause major proliferation of styles. I'm trying
to
train people to use styles rather than direct formatting, and not to
reformat
a built-in style etc. but right now don't have a list to know what is
"vanilla" - my own normal.dot having been modified.

Thanks

Uh... what's a "Mac"? Isn't that a British raincoat?

Sheesh, Suzanne, how the heck did you know that? I've never actually even
touched a Mac, so I have no clue how the Mac version of Word differs from
the *real* version. ;-)

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
http://www.herbtyson.com
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It is Format | Style in Windows versions. If you're using a Mac, you might
want to try the Mac-specific NGs starting from
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/communi...pid=newsgroups

Before Dayo Mitchell left for her cross-country trek, she posted this link
and asked our help in redirecting any Mac users who might stray into these
NGs.

--
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.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Uh... what's a "Mac"? Isn't that a British raincoat?

Sheesh, Suzanne, how the heck did you know that? I've never actually even
touched a Mac, so I have no clue how the Mac version of Word differs from
the *real* version. ;-)

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
http://www.herbtyson.com
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It is Format | Style in Windows versions. If you're using a Mac, you
might
want to try the Mac-specific NGs starting from
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/communi...pid=newsgroups