Prevent creation of new styles

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If you apply formatting to text then Word automatically adds a new item to
the list of formatting in use for that document. This may result in hundreds
of different but similar styles being used throughout the document.

Is it possible to turn this feature off, either on the local machine or
globally through group policies etc? Or using VBA
Or is it just a case of trying to educate users to restrict themselves to a
limited number of styles throughout the document?

thanks for your help on this.

Carl

 

[Cindy M.]

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If you apply formatting to text then Word automatically adds a new item to
the list of formatting in use for that document. This may result in hundreds
of different but similar styles being used throughout the document.

Is it possible to turn this feature off, either on the local machine or
globally through group policies etc? Or using VBA
Or is it just a case of trying to educate users to restrict themselves to a
limited number of styles throughout the document?

Basically, it's the last. You can turn off "Keep track of formatting" in
Tools/Options/Edit, which will take it out of the styles list. But in the
background Word will still be doing this - it's how Word works. It was made
visible like this to help people realize they could re-use existing formats,
and try to reduce the proliferation...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Daiya Mitchell]

These aren't really new styles. See here:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html
(Big Idea #4--you can turn this listing off)