Styles and Formatting

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Mandy Caldow - 06 Oct 2004 07:16 GMT

What's the difference between each of the following which
appear in the Show drop down list at the bottom of the
Styles and Formatting Task Pane in Word:

Available formatting
Formatting in use
Available styles
All styles
Custom...

In addition, I understand there are 9 built-in styles in
Word but how do you know which styles in a document are
built-in and which are custom?

Thanks in advance.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 06 Oct 2004 14:43 GMT

There are far more than nine built-in styles in Word. If you create a
document based on out-of-the-box Normal.dot and view All Styles in the
Styles dialog (not the Styles and Formatting task pane, which doesn't
actually list all the styles even when you tell it to), you'll see there are
dozens. Any style you haven't created yourself is a built-in style.

For more on this, see
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html

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> What's the difference between each of the following which
> appear in the Show drop down list at the bottom of the
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> Thanks in advance.

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