Resetting styles

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Fletcher Johnson - 25 Oct 2005 16:44 GMT

Hi all,

I have a big document (~140 pages) that has been formatted by the user from
hell.... Anyway, all of the default styles have been tweaked. I need to
preserve the application of the styles, but I need to reset them to their
default values.

So I don't want to change which style is applied to which text. I just want
to reset it (the style) to the default values. For example, they have
totally redefined the heading styles. I need the default ones.

Thank you,

Fletcher

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Anne Troy - 25 Oct 2005 16:51 GMT

You should just be able to copy them over from normal.dot. (If there's some
OTHER default ones, like Heading4, etc., that were used, just create a quick
document that uses those styles and save it, and use it instead of
normal.dot.) To copy styles, use the organizer:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/using_the_organizer_in_microsoft_word.htm
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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 25 Oct 2005 20:57 GMT

If the user has just applied direct formatting, you can get back to the
default with Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q. If the user has actually modified the styles,
then your best bet is to insert the document into a fresh document based on
the default template.

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