How to delete styles in word?

[Chris@ADS]

I'm using Word 2003 and trying to delete some styles for Headings which we do
not use. They are Heading styles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and I do not have the
option to delete them? I click on Format on the Menu bar and then select
Styles. Then once I highlight these styles and right click I see the option
to delete, but it's greyed out. I thought it might be because they are based
on the Normal.dot Heading Style, but I changed that and still didn't get the
option to delete? I am able to delete other styles without any problem, but
these in particular are causing me issues.

Chris

 

[Jay Freedman]

I'm using Word 2003 and trying to delete some styles for Headings
which we do not use. They are Heading styles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and I
do not have the option to delete them? I click on Format on the Menu
bar and then select Styles. Then once I highlight these styles and
right click I see the option to delete, but it's greyed out. I
thought it might be because they are based on the Normal.dot Heading
Style, but I changed that and still didn't get the option to delete?
I am able to delete other styles without any problem, but these in
particular are causing me issues.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Built-in styles, including all the Heading styles, can't be deleted.

What sort of issues are you having with these styles, since you don't use
them?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In Word 2003, you can use the Custom option in the Styles and Formatting
task pane to select which styles you want visible.