can't delete styles via the Organizer without a crash

[john gibb]

Hi,

In Word 2002(SP3), I have a bunch of styles in a large document with custom
template attached.

I am trying to delete extraneous styles of the form:

styleA
styleA1
styleA2
styleA3

where I want to delete the somehow-accidently-created last 3 in that list,
via Tools | Template and Add-ins | Organizer. (The styles seem to delete OK;
I just get a crash when trying to save the doc. And then when I reopen the
doc, the styles are back. (I also get a few Word-is-running-out-of-memory
errors during the deletion, but I proceed anyway. FWIW, I have 1 GB of RAM,
but my large doc has quite a few graphics in it.)

The large document incorporated the Master document feature, if it matters,
to combine about 6 files into a large 400 page or so resultant doc.

Questions:
a)Any thoughts on how to permanently delete these styles.

b) Is it safe to use the Master document feature?

thanks

-john

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "john gibb" <[email protected]>,

For instructions on using Master Documents successfully see my article
at

http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/masterdocs.doc

I would Maggie all your subs before embarking on the change of
process: copy'n'paste all bar the last para mark in each doc to a new
doc. They may need a more heavy duty clean, like save as HTML, quit
word, reload the HTML doc, resave as doc etc.

For the particular problem you have, have you tried not loading the
document, but using the Organizer to open it, delete, and save?

Additionally, you will need to kill those styles in the sub-documents,
but as my article will direct you to make a new master and play nice
with it from then on, I suggest you merely get started on the
instructions in the article

Are they dangerous?

Master documents are cells of corruption terrorists waiting to strike.
So long as we take active steps to contain them, we win the war by
avoiding all battles.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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john gibb reckoned: