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Removing Style Properties
Often, "restyling" a document that you have inherited from someone else will require a lot of work.
What you can do is try the following: Create a new, blank document with the desired styles. Import the existing content (of your inherited document) via the Insert File dialog box. (To open the dialog box, go to the Insert tab, click the arrow on the Object button and finally click Text from File.)
Thanks for the reply, Lenka_Kerumova
Unfortunately, I am not talking about removing a style, but removing part of it's properties. An example might be if you modify the 'Normal' style font to 9 pt, you cannot remove that property it seems.
Markhaning - have you tried what I suggested? Your reply seems to suggest that you had read only the first sentence.
- Yes, you could built styles one property at a time in another document but that would be equivalent to deleting them and starting again. Not really what I am looking for
- That's not what I am suggesting, though. It is not building styles one property at a time at all.
My suggestion takes care of any unwanted property returning the styles to their default state. Now you say that that is not what you want.
Your only remaining options now are either write a macro doing exactly what you want or remove the unwanted property one by one, style by style.- Sorry Lenka - yes you have misunderstood my question.
Exactly what I am looking for is to remove an unwanted property one by one and style by style.