Styles

S

Susy

Is there a way to just have the user-defined styles appear
in the dropdown on the toolbar? I have to scroll through
so many styles to get to the ones I set up. I've deleted
all the styles I'm allowed to but there are still a bunch
showing up. What drives that dropdown?

Thanks.
 
M

Margaret Aldis

Susy said:
Is there a way to just have the user-defined styles appear
in the dropdown on the toolbar? I have to scroll through
so many styles to get to the ones I set up. I've deleted
all the styles I'm allowed to but there are still a bunch
showing up. What drives that dropdown?

Thanks.
 
M

Margaret Aldis

Hi Susy

In Word XP you can control which styles appear in the dropdown and Styles
and Formatting pane by selecting Custom in the dropdown of the Styles and
Formatting Pane - start with 'Styles in use' and then untick any you don't
want to appear.

Word 2000 and before you can select 'Styles in use' (Format > Style), but
you may not be able to get rid of some styles Word *thinks* are in use, even
though you no longer use them in a document.
 
S

Susy

-----Original Message-----
Margaret:

Thank you for your reply. I use Word 2000 and I've already
selected "styles in use" in the style section. I'm
actually quite proficient with styles, but how to make
Word stop *thinking* has always stumped me....

If I can't get rid of all the entries in the dropdown, is
there a way to lengthen the dropdown box, the way I do in
Access, so that more styles will show?

Susy
Hi Susy
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you're not actually using some of the styles listed in "Styles in use,"
you can delete them. Word's built-in styles will not really be deleted, just
reset to their factory-default formatting. You won't be able to delete
Normal, Default Paragraph Font, or any heading style that is listed, but any
others can be deleted.

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C

Charles Kenyon

Also, you could create a custom toolbar with a custom menu that lists the
styles you want. Of course, that listing won't show the formatting.
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Clive Huggan

Susy,

Adding to Margaret's good advice:

Especially if you're in Word 2000 or earlier, the best solution is to create
a special toolbar that contains the styles you use. Then you just click on
the styles you want -- far quicker than running down menus. It takes only a
few minutes to make a toolbar and only seconds to add / remove buttons.

Post back if you need help creating a toolbar, but check Word Help first.

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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K

Klaus Linke

In Word2000 and above, there is also a "Hidden" property that you can set to
True:
ActiveDocument.Styles("Test").Hidden=True

The style name will still show in the style area if you have that displayed.
But the style will no longer appear in the style dropdown.

If you are in a paragraph that uses a hidden style, the style dropdown will
show nothing.

Regards,
Klaus
 

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