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Styles Growing
Please, please tell me that you got an answer to this question!!! It has been
driving me NUTS ever since I started using Word 2003!!!!!! -- Liz Z "JD" wrote: The question is simple. As soon as I apply any formatting to a piece of text, Word automatically creates a new style (ie, something that shows in the style drop-down window). I don't want this in any shape or form. I want it turned off so that if I open a document with 20 styles in it and work on the doc for four hours, I still only have 20 styles in it when I close (unless I have specifically told Word to create a new style). A simple enough question. All over the Internet people are asking the same question. Why can't anybody answer it? JD "Elbert" wrote: Hi Shauna, Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what's weird: I'm using two computers and synchronizing software that keeps documents and templates synchronized. I disconnected the computers, started both from scratch, and checked both: the normal template, my custom template, and my document have exactly the same time stamps on both computers. I open the document on one computer. In the styles and formatting task pane, "show" is set to "available styles." Most recent styles do NOT appear at the top of the task pane. I open the document on the other computer. "Show" is set to "custom" (!!). Most recent styles DO appear at the top of the task pane. I switch to show available styles. Most recent styles still appear at the top of the list. It appears that the same program accessing the same data on two different computers behaves differently on the two computers. I'm really out of my depth here. Thanks again for the suggestions. Elbert "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Elbert In the Styles and Formatting pane, experiment with the "Show" drop-down list at the bottom of the pane. You see the most-recent-styles list only if you are displaying "All styles". My preference is to use the "Custom" option and decide exactly what you'd like to see. You don't get the most-recent-styles list when you do that. Bear in mind that "All styles" does not mean "all the styles", that "Styles in use" includes any style ever used in this document even if it's not in the document now, and "Available styles" is beyond my understanding. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Elbert" wrote in message ... Thanks for the info. Strangely, I'm using the same template on two computers. On one of them I get the most recently used styles at the top, on the other I don't. Unhappily I have no idea how I managed to turn it off on the one, or I'd do it on the other. I use the template enough that I kinda know where styles are in the list, and having the extra list at the top moves them down until they're not where I expect them, and I can't see some of them. Elbert "Margaret Aldis" wrote: The pane shows the most recently used styles in a short list at the top, followed by a full list of all the styles. The styles aren't duplicated - it's just intended to provide a quick way of applying commonly used styles. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Elbert" wrote in message news PMFJI, but I have the same problem. Toolsoptionseditkeep track of formatting is not checked. Toolsautocorrectautoformat as you typedefine styles based on your formatting is also unchecked. Yet every time I assign a style to a paragraph (eg, a heading) that style appears again at the top of the styles task pane. Thanks for any help you can give. Elbert "Klaus Linke" wrote: Hi Deb, What you see is formatting, not styles. The task pane is named "Styles and formatting", and if you have checked "Tools Options Edit Keep track of formatting", it'll show all the manual formatting you (or some AutoFormatting gizmo) have applied. You can turn that off, but I'd rather try not to apply manual formatting at all -- or remove it if it has been accidentally applied (Ctrl+Q for manual paragraph formatting, Ctrl+Spacebar for manual font formatting). Regards, Klaus "Deb" wrote: I have a style called Body Text. Each time I apply it to something I get another Style called "Body Text + Indent," or "Body Text + Left: 0" Hanging: 1.5" Befo 6 pt" Why does this happen? The Automatically Update Styles feature is not turned on on any of my styles. |
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Styles Growing
Look at some of the answers.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Liz Z" wrote in message ... Please, please tell me that you got an answer to this question!!! It has been driving me NUTS ever since I started using Word 2003!!!!!! -- Liz Z "JD" wrote: The question is simple. As soon as I apply any formatting to a piece of text, Word automatically creates a new style (ie, something that shows in the style drop-down window). I don't want this in any shape or form. I want it turned off so that if I open a document with 20 styles in it and work on the doc for four hours, I still only have 20 styles in it when I close (unless I have specifically told Word to create a new style). A simple enough question. All over the Internet people are asking the same question. Why can't anybody answer it? JD "Elbert" wrote: Hi Shauna, Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what's weird: I'm using two computers and synchronizing software that keeps documents and templates synchronized. I disconnected the computers, started both from scratch, and checked both: the normal template, my custom template, and my document have exactly the same time stamps on both computers. I open the document on one computer. In the styles and formatting task pane, "show" is set to "available styles." Most recent styles do NOT appear at the top of the task pane. I open the document on the other computer. "Show" is set to "custom" (!!). Most recent styles DO appear at the top of the task pane. I switch to show available styles. Most recent styles still appear at the top of the list. It appears that the same program accessing the same data on two different computers behaves differently on the two computers. I'm really out of my depth here. Thanks again for the suggestions. Elbert "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Elbert In the Styles and Formatting pane, experiment with the "Show" drop-down list at the bottom of the pane. You see the most-recent-styles list only if you are displaying "All styles". My preference is to use the "Custom" option and decide exactly what you'd like to see. You don't get the most-recent-styles list when you do that. Bear in mind that "All styles" does not mean "all the styles", that "Styles in use" includes any style ever used in this document even if it's not in the document now, and "Available styles" is beyond my understanding. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Elbert" wrote in message ... Thanks for the info. Strangely, I'm using the same template on two computers. On one of them I get the most recently used styles at the top, on the other I don't. Unhappily I have no idea how I managed to turn it off on the one, or I'd do it on the other. I use the template enough that I kinda know where styles are in the list, and having the extra list at the top moves them down until they're not where I expect them, and I can't see some of them. Elbert "Margaret Aldis" wrote: The pane shows the most recently used styles in a short list at the top, followed by a full list of all the styles. The styles aren't duplicated - it's just intended to provide a quick way of applying commonly used styles. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Elbert" wrote in message news PMFJI, but I have the same problem. Toolsoptionseditkeep track of formatting is not checked. Toolsautocorrectautoformat as you typedefine styles based on your formatting is also unchecked. Yet every time I assign a style to a paragraph (eg, a heading) that style appears again at the top of the styles task pane. Thanks for any help you can give. Elbert "Klaus Linke" wrote: Hi Deb, What you see is formatting, not styles. The task pane is named "Styles and formatting", and if you have checked "Tools Options Edit Keep track of formatting", it'll show all the manual formatting you (or some AutoFormatting gizmo) have applied. You can turn that off, but I'd rather try not to apply manual formatting at all -- or remove it if it has been accidentally applied (Ctrl+Q for manual paragraph formatting, Ctrl+Spacebar for manual font formatting). Regards, Klaus "Deb" wrote: I have a style called Body Text. Each time I apply it to something I get another Style called "Body Text + Indent," or "Body Text + Left: 0" Hanging: 1.5" Befo 6 pt" Why does this happen? The Automatically Update Styles feature is not turned on on any of my styles. |
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