The keep track of formatting has nothing to do with the creation of unlinked
styles. It just tells you when any instance of a style has direct formatting.
It a report and doesn't affect the style itself.

Styles break in W2002 and 3 when you apply a style to just part of a in a
different style paragraph or when you paste text in one style into part of a
paragraph of another style. One or both of the styles would have to be
linked. We couldn't tell when a style was linked except for a brief time with
W2003. BTW, MS describes the cause of char styles he
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902064. But I never thought their hot fix
fixed anything.

I suspect that MS hides the unlinked styles because, though the linked do not
represent a corrupt or damaged document, deleting an unlinked style can
cause minor damage to a document and cause Word to close. (I've done so many
a time, and gladly, just to get rid of the flaky styles behavior.) But to
MS.) So they must think that the best way to keep users from damaging
documents that are perfectly OK (as far as they are concerned) is to hide
things from them. Sigh.

From what I can tell, linked styles don't break in W2007.

Pam


Pam


Stefan Blom wrote:
Good to know that the old macro is still useful...

I do find it disturbing that the char styles get created even though I don't
make use of the "Keep track of formatting" feature.

Exactly, the only place where I found them too.
I use the following macro to remove them so they don't show up, even on
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Style.
Take a look at the style listings in the dialog box. :-(

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