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    We’re used to having a lot of styles around – the default setup here is for a couple of dozen customised styles we use to appear at the top of the list (organised by the old-fashioned method of putting an underscore on the front of the name!) but the rest of the list of styles is still there. However, it starts to get ridiculous when every little change starts appearing as a new style in the list!

    I realise we can stop this on a document-by-document basis by unchecking the three radio buttons in ‘Options’ in the Styles Box, but I’d like to know if there is a ‘master switch’ as such, that we can set to prevent this permanently? I looked in Office > Word Options but there wasn’t anything there that I could see.

    Unfortunately our normal.dotm is locked so setting anything there is not an option.

    Does anyone know of anything we can do to fix this, please?

    Many thanks in advance!

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      Have you checked your setting for “Keep track of formatting”? (In Word 2007, it’s accessed via Office button > Word Options > Advanced > Editing options.) If that setting is turned off, then the extra styles won’t show up in the Styles pane.

      Gary

    • #1255959

      Thanks, Gary, that was the switch I was looking for – I just didn’t know what it was called!

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