Removing styles from drop down

H

Hall

The drop-down list of styles has way too many styles for my needs. I
want to remove most of them.

I tried using Organizer from the Styles form (that's from the icon
showing the little A and the big blue underlined A). I used it to
remove from the current document the styles I don't want, and added
from my Normal.dot the styles that I do want.

But the drop-down still has all those styles I don't want. How do I
get rid of them?

Thanks!
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

What version of Word? If it's Word 2002 or above, you can control style
visibility.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

In the Styles and Formatting task pane, select Show: Custom. This opens a
dialog in which you can set which styles you want to be visible. This
controls the Styles list as well as the task pane.
 
H

Hall

....and after I select the ones I want to show, I choose from the
"Show" drop-down "Available styles". That last step seems to be what
activates this filtering. I had to fiddle to finally see that part.

Thanks so much!
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Yes, I didn't tell you the last step because I wasn't sure of it myself. The
Styles dropdown ordinarily (and always in earlier versions that don't have
the task pane) displays "Styles in use," and that is what I prefer, since I
want styles I explicitly select (even if they aren't in the list to begin
with) to be added to the list.
 
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