Word 2007 Styles

[Carole]

I need to remove and rename styles in a document. The modify dialog box adds
the new name and does not remove the old one. When i delete a style it does
not delete and sometimes does not give me the option to. I am working on
templates and need to rectify this ???????
Thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

No offense, Carole, but on at least 2 prior occasions it has been pointed
out to you that this is the newsgroup which focuses on Word for the
MACINTOSH. You are using a WINDOWS version of the program & there are a
number of significant differences - especially with regard to Office 2007.
It isn't that we don't *want* to help you, it's just that most of the
regulars here aren't equipped with the information you need.

You'll receive more prompt response if you use the link Clive has been
giving you in his previous replies - there are more people there who are
expressly involved with the MS Office programs for the Windows operating
system. The Office for Windows newsgroups are accessible from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Carole:

Bob's right: you will get a more complete and knowledgeable answer in the PC
Word group because those good folks use Word 2007 all day. I use Word Mac,
which is quite a bit different.

However, there are three sets of styles in Word:

Default, Built-in, and Custom.

The Default set are required as part of the document structure. You cannot
remove them -- if you could, Word would no longer be able to read the file.
Amongst these are the Heading 1 to Heading 9 series -- the "Heading" styles.

The "Built-in" styles are the rest of the 147 styles that are pre-defined in
Word. They do not exist in the document unless you use them, but they do
exist in Word, so you cannot create a new style of the same name.

The "Custom" styles are the ones you create yourself. The cannot have the
same name as either a built-in or a default style. You can delete them.

I believe Word 2007 has a mechanism that enables you to HIDE the default
name of a style if you have assigned a new name as an alias. If you ask in
the Word 2007 group, they will be able to tell you how to switch that on.

You can't remove the style, and you can't remove the name, but you can hide
it. As fare as the user is concerned, that's the same thing.

Mac Word does not have that feature, so I can't tell you much about it.

Cheers

I need to remove and rename styles in a document. The modify dialog box adds
the new name and does not remove the old one. When i delete a style it does
not delete and sometimes does not give me the option to. I am working on
templates and need to rectify this ???????
Thanks

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