Entered a world of word style complexity I want to leave

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I don't know what happened, I'm now in a world of word style complexity I
want to leave. In my old world, I had 4 pre-defined styles, I used those
styles. Those were the only styles in my menu and I was happy. If I modified
them, that was fine.

In this new world, any change I make to a style results in a new style. So I
have dozens of them listed now. I know there's a setting somewhere to turn
this off. But word doesn't make finding it easy. I'm slogging through help
screen after help screen.

Is there any easy way to go back to the old way? (I'm sure the new way is
better and I'm preventing myself from realizign all sorts of benefits. But
I'm just used to the basic old way where I don't have to scroll to find the
header 2 style I created.)

Thanks!
 
If you're referring to styles like "Normal + Italic", go to Tools > Options
Edit and uncheck the option for "Keep track of formatting".
Click to expand...

These things aren't really styles, and turning off that setting will
suppress their display in the Styles dropdown and in the Style & Formatting
pane.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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