In Normal View, go into Tools | Options, View tab, and set the box for Style
Area Width to zero.
The style area shows you the style in use in each paragraph--it can be
extremely useful at times.
> All of a sudden I have a three inch column on the left side of my Word
> documents when in Normal or Outline View. In the column are the words
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>
> Thanks, Ron

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