Re: Word without proliferation of styles

["Weissman, Jessica" <WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com>]

First I would make sure I was seeing only styles listed, not all formatting.  Turn off Keep Track of Formatting.  That gives you a clearer picture of what's there.

And then I would assess.   You may be ok reapplying styles.  Or you may have a corrupt infested mess,  in which case a trip to plain ASCII text is indicated.  Good luck.  

Jessica


On Mar 16, 2011, at 5:10 PM, "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Document was created in Word 2003, several years ago, 
> and great care was taken to create and use only a 
> limited set of styles (none based on Normal), with 
> almost no spot formatting. 
> 
> Document was then used by other parties as basis 
> for documenting an offshoot product. The other 
> persons entirely ignored styles, did everything 
> via spot formatting, and even imported sections 
> from other docs - which brought in hundreds more 
> styles.
> 
> Offshoot product became mainstream and landed back 
> on my table. 
> 
> I stopped counting at around 1000 "styles". 
> 
> I'm thinking that the best approach is to just 
> suck it all into Notepad, then start pasting, 
> piecemeal, into a clean LibreOffice document, 
> and applying the clean style scheme from there. 
> 
> But, if there's a reasonable way to attack the 
> clean-up in Word, I might try that. 
> 
> This is not something I expect to do every year, 
> or even three, so it's not really worthwhile to 
> invest a lot of money or time in tools or learning 
> the scripting or otherwise ramping up to tackle 
> just two docs, totalling less than 300 pages between 'em. 
> 
> What would you do?
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin McLauchlan
> Senior Technical Writer
> SafeNet, Inc.
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