Unable to delete styles

[Kevin Buchs]

I have a coworker with a totally messed up document that has about 50
different bullet styles. I think he has automatic style creation turned on.
Anyway using the Styles and Formatting dialog, I was trying to help him
consolidate them by selecting all instances one style and then clicking
clicking on another style to change styles. When I try to delete old styles,
they are not actually deleted but keep showing up on the list with instances.
Any ideas on what would cause such styles to be so stubborn?

 

[Kevin Buchs]

Forgot to mention, dealing with Word 2003

 

[Stefan Blom]

If the styles in question are built-in styles, note that they cannot be
deleted.

 

[Kevin Buchs]

If the styles in question are built-in styles, note that they cannot be

deleted.

Yes, I understand that. There are styles that are most definitely not
built-in. In addition there are about 50 styles named "bullets". It is a
mess!

Further, does anyone know what might cause excess style propagation under
the case where the AutoFormat As You Type option to Define styles based on
your formatting is UNCHECKED?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Uncheck - tools > options > edit > keep track of formatting.
Then
Apply the required styles to the document
Then
ALT+F8 > Organizer - select and delete unwanted styles from the document.

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[Stefan Blom]

Good point. With that many entries, I should have suspected "style +
formatting" too.