Removing EVERY stylesheet in Word2004?

[vilms5000]

Is there any way to remove stylesheets from Word? I suspect not...

We have Word 2004 documents being imported into InDesign. The subs that
are saving the Word documents are removing all the formatting in the
documents but STILL some rogue stylesheets are being dragged into
InDesign.
Ideally, we'd like there to be no chance of any stylesheets being taken
through by Word. Can anyone suggest a way to "clean" Word documents,
prior to InDesign?

Thanks,

Paul

 

[Clive Huggan]

Paul,

Word is an application centred on styles, so there will always be at least
one.

To make all the text plain and in the one style (no paragraph variations
such as leading, no character variations such as italicizing), select all
the text, copy it, click in a new blank document in a blank paragraph that
has, say, Normal style, then choose Edit menu -> Paste Special ->
Unformatted Text. All the text will now have the characteristics of plain
vanilla Normal.

Sorry, but you won't get any work from me or many other professional
document developers -- in collaboration with the graphic designer, we base
our styles on what's best in InDesign, so that a huge amount of time is
saved in not having to re-apply styles throughout the document. The styles
will be probably be re-defined, of course, but that's quick and simple.

Just kidding!... I'm familiar with the formatting nightmares in Word that
come from people who know and care nothing about styles. Better to strip out
and start again, non?

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

Bring up Word Help and ask:

delete style
or
delete multiple styles

If this doesn't help please re-post with additional information.

Matt Centurión
Macintosh Business Unit, Microsoft

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Save As "Text Only" will completely remove all style and formatting
information.

Word documents contain a single style sheet, which is part of the internal
structure of the file and cannot be removed without producing a file that is
not a Word document (and won't open in Word).

The best approach to formatting in other applications is normally to keep
the style names from Word, and set the styles to the properties required in
the target application.

But if you save as plain text, you remove all formatting information
including the stylesheet and the style names.

Cheers

Is there any way to remove stylesheets from Word? I suspect not...

We have Word 2004 documents being imported into InDesign. The subs that
are saving the Word documents are removing all the formatting in the
documents but STILL some rogue stylesheets are being dragged into
InDesign.
Ideally, we'd like there to be no chance of any stylesheets being taken
through by Word. Can anyone suggest a way to "clean" Word documents,
prior to InDesign?

Thanks,

Paul

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Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Paul-

When you Place a Word doc in InDesign (via File>Place or Cmd+D), are
you putting a check in the Place dialog checkbox to 'Show Import
Options', and then checking the box to 'Remove Text and Table
Formatting'?

HTH |:>)