Forum Discussion
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.)
- It does work but tends to be just as much work as restyling in all honest.
Ended up re-styling one by one.My problem is that I am moving my work from a Mac, Big Sur, to Win 10. Too many OSX Word 365 Issues. (bugs, severely reduced functionality)
Years of docs created under Word 2011 & 365 have a multitude of individual styles for each instance of specific text formatting in each doc, on the Mac, are not shown unless desired.
Win 10 Word 365 does not allow the disabling of the showing of these in the Styles panel.
Problems:
1. apple styles that are not used are shown in list
2. there are many styles that have the same style but are not built-in
Solution, upgrade Win 10 Word 365 to show only built-in, as is in OSX. 💖
I started to write vba code to do this but: its been 10 years since I have done the type of code required and I am too old to do it again. And would still be left with the individual styles that are not built-in.
PS, I was on a level 1 session for too long, an hour or more, before I was given this link.
Level 1's need to be aware of this problem.
