Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008

Hi Michael:

Yes, there is a setting, but it is in Windows.

In Windows, you need to turn on "Disable linked styles" and disable "Keep
track of formatting".

The styles you are seeing are not the styles you are supposed to be using.
They are styles created by the stupid "partially applied styles" bug, which
creates a new Character style whenever your selection strays a bit while
applying the proper styles.

If you have any text selected, but not the paragraph mark, when you apply a
paragraph style, Word creates a Character style and links it to the correct
style.  If you then continue to apply these, you eventually corrupt your
document.

By disabling those two commands (in both Windows and Mac) you will see only
the "real" styles, and Word won't create any rubbish styles with only
partial properties.  Those commands were introduced by someone who
completely missed the entire point of styles, in an effort to make Word
"easy" for clueless newbies.  Unless you turn them off, they make Word
"impossible" to use for the people such as yourself who actually do know how
to use it!

If you need a modified style, update the real style.  If you need a
different style, create a new one.  Otherwise you will rapidly lose control
of your document.

When this happens, late will become your nights and long will be your
weekends spent at work; and bitter will become your thoughts, as you slave
away to sort out the mess :-)

Cheers

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