How do I stop creation of new styles with every format change?

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Nautical Lady - 09 Mar 2005 13:49 GMT

I have a set list of styles created in an older version of MSWord that are
part of a template (.dot). I used to be able to manipulate an instance of a
style without Word automatically creating a new style (i.e., style named
"text" has 6pts of space before and after, but for one instance I change the
before spacing to 0 to squeeze something on the same page). This just
snowballs and I'm nervous about corruption issues sooner or later.

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Jay Freedman - 09 Mar 2005 15:29 GMT

> I have a set list of styles created in an older version of MSWord
> that are part of a template (.dot). I used to be able to manipulate
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> something on the same page). This just snowballs and I'm nervous
> about corruption issues sooner or later.

The short answer is to go to Tools > Options > Edit and turn off "Keep track
of formatting".

The longer answer is at item 4 in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html -- what
you see isn't really a style at all.

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Jay Freedman
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Barbara Nie - 07 Apr 2005 21:25 GMT

Thank you very much ... the short answer was just what I was looking for!

> > I have a set list of styles created in an older version of MSWord
> > that are part of a template (.dot). I used to be able to manipulate
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html -- what
> you see isn't really a style at all.

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