What does "All styles" mean?

J

Julie

What does "All styles" mean in the Show box? And how is that different from
"Available styles"?
 
S

Stefan Blom

Perhaps it means "all the styles that Microsoft thinks (new) users of
Word can handle"?
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Apparently. Frustratingly, though, it doesn't include the styles we often
need to refer users to, such as Footnote/Endnote Text/Reference and TOC
styles. Which is why one of the first things I did to customize Word 2002
was add a button for the Format Style dialog to my toolbar!
 
J

Julie

Thanks for all that information. In the Word 2003 All Styles list Footnote,
Endnote and TOCs are there, so that's good. However, I am still mystified
about the difference between All Styles and Available Styles. Why would some
styles not be available?

Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Apparently. Frustratingly, though, it doesn't include the styles we often
need to refer users to, such as Footnote/Endnote Text/Reference and TOC
styles. Which is why one of the first things I did to customize Word 2002
was add a button for the Format Style dialog to my toolbar!
Click to expand...
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

You can make the styles available or unavailable using the Custom setting.
In other words, you can choose which ones you want to display.
 
J

Julie

OK, that's clear now thanks Suzanne.

Another related thing that puzzles me is when you choose "Styles in use" you
get a lot more styles than the ones being used. In fact it looks like the
available styles list. Is the "Styles in use" option supposed to list only
the styles in use in that document?
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

I think "Styles in use" means "Styles that have ever been used in this
document (or template)." So if you format a paragraph with Style A and later
change it to Style B or delete the paragraph, so that there is no longer any
text formatted with Style A, Style A will still be displayed as "in use."
You can delete all "Styles in use" except Normal, Default Paragraph Font,
Headings 1-3, and any other heading styles that have been used. Deleting
user-defined styles actually deletes them; deleting built-in styles resets
them to the default Normal.dot default.
 

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