Getting mad with styles in Word XP

[Dario de Judicibus]

I'm getting mad with the latest version of Word (Office XP). Now the style
does not show only "pure" styles but also variants (style+...). This is
really confusing me. In fact, I want to use only pure styles. However, when
I receive pieces of docs from other peole, often I import a lot of style
garbage in my docs. Is there a way to say: "Please, change all
STYLE_X+OTHER_STUFF to STYLE_X only"? Where OTHER_STUFF is *not* a specific
variant, but *all* variants!

DdJ

 

[Graham Mayor]

The additions are indications of manual formatting - select the text and
reset to the underlying style with CTRL+Space - it was ever thus.

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[Charles Kenyon]

Turn off the option to keep track of formatting.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you don't want to see these, go to Tools | Options | Edit and clear the
check box for "Keep track of formatting." Note that doing so will disable
the "Select All" feature in the Styles and Formatting task pane.

 

[Dario de Judicibus]

Turn off the option to keep track of formatting.

how?
ddj

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Tools | Options | Edit: clear the check box for "Keep track of formatting."

 

[Klaus Linke]

If you don't want to see these, go to Tools | Options | Edit and clear the
check box for "Keep track of formatting." Note that doing so will disable
the "Select All" feature in the Styles and Formatting task pane.

.... which is a great tool to clean up the mess:

After you have selected all text with some manual formatting, you can
easily return it to the style definition.

Either reapply the style (removes manual paragraph formatting, and also
manual font formatting from the selected text), or use Ctrl+Spacebar
(remove manual font formatting) and Ctrl+Q (remove manual paragraph
formatting).

Regards,
Klaus