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Deleting A Style in Office 2003

by Confed Jun 26, 2009 3:31AM PDT

How does one permanently delete a style in Office 2003? I keep deleting the thing and it keeps coming back. The "Help" simply says to right click and delete, which I do, but even creating a "Normal" style doesn't seem to help.

Microsoft seems more interested in thwarting customers than actually helping them. Can anyone explain what's going on? How do I delete the font and keep it deleted?

Thanks.

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Re: deleting style

by Kees Bakker Jun 26, 2009 6:22AM PDT

I don't think you can delete a style that shows in an existing document once it is used. But you can make a new normal.dot without much styles and that would work for a new document.

Kees

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Strange....

by Confed Jun 26, 2009 9:26AM PDT

That's what gets me about it. Why would they have a "delete" option if it wouldn't delete? Even after I deleted the entire document content, it still comes back. I did a search for how to delete a style and the Help menu comes back and tells me to right click it and select "Delete." I do and bing! It's back next time I open a document.

I tried rewriting the Normal.dot file and it seems to work in the Word document, but not the Outlook document. That's where it's being obstinate.

Thanks! Any other ideas?

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