Showing/Hiding Styles in Word 2007 Anne 11/26/2008 6:42:00 PM I'm still not used to using the Quick Style Gallery in Word 2007, and prefer to view the list of styles on the right side of the screen. I wanted to change the styles that appear in the list on the right side of the screen (I think this is the "Styles" pane). I tried using the Manage Styles button, and ended up accidentally selecting every predefined style in Word to appear in that pane. Ooops! Not exactly what I intended to do. Of course, I don't want to see that many styles. To try to fix this, I went back into Manage Styles, and selected (as a test) a single Style and clicked Hide, and then that style is indeed no longer shown in the Quick Style Gallery. However it still appears in the Styles pane! Is there a way for me to hide some styles that are now shown in the Styles pane?

Re: Showing/Hiding Styles in Word 2007 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 11/26/2008 6:55:36 PM The Styles panel has display options similar to those in the Styles & Formatting task pane in Word 2002/2003. Click on Options and choose "Recommended" (the default) or "In use" or "In current document" instead of "All styles," which is what it's probably currently displaying. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Anne" <Anne[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:620769C5-A1D7-46C1-95A8-8BB7FFFF8027[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I'm still not used to using the Quick Style Gallery in Word 2007, and > prefer > to view the list of styles on the right side of the screen. > > I wanted to change the styles that appear in the list on the right side of > the screen (I think this is the "Styles" pane). I tried using the Manage > Styles button, and ended up accidentally selecting every predefined style > in > Word to appear in that pane. Ooops! Not exactly what I intended to do. > > Of course, I don't want to see that many styles. To try to fix this, I > went > back into Manage Styles, and selected (as a test) a single Style and > clicked > Hide, and then that style is indeed no longer shown in the Quick Style > Gallery. However it still appears in the Styles pane! Is there a way for > me > to hide some styles that are now shown in the Styles pane? >

Re: Showing/Hiding Styles in Word 2007 Anne 11/26/2008 7:06:10 PM Thank you Suzanne!!! For some reason I thought I should be able to do everything from within the "Manage Styles" button. Whew - what a relief! Happy Thanksgiving to you - "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: [Quoted Text] > The Styles panel has display options similar to those in the Styles & > Formatting task pane in Word 2002/2003. Click on Options and choose > "Recommended" (the default) or "In use" or "In current document" instead of > "All styles," which is what it's probably currently displaying. > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > > "Anne" <Anne[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:620769C5-A1D7-46C1-95A8-8BB7FFFF8027[ at ]microsoft.com... > > I'm still not used to using the Quick Style Gallery in Word 2007, and > > prefer > > to view the list of styles on the right side of the screen. > > > > I wanted to change the styles that appear in the list on the right side of > > the screen (I think this is the "Styles" pane). I tried using the Manage > > Styles button, and ended up accidentally selecting every predefined style > > in > > Word to appear in that pane. Ooops! Not exactly what I intended to do. > > > > Of course, I don't want to see that many styles. To try to fix this, I > > went > > back into Manage Styles, and selected (as a test) a single Style and > > clicked > > Hide, and then that style is indeed no longer shown in the Quick Style > > Gallery. However it still appears in the Styles pane! Is there a way for > > me > > to hide some styles that are now shown in the Styles pane? > > > > >

Re: Showing/Hiding Styles in Word 2007 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 11/26/2008 11:16:43 PM It may well be that the Options setting reflects what you last had selected in Manage Styles (you probably had to choose "All styles" at some point in order to find ones to recommend?). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Anne" <Anne[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D43F74A9-E0AC-4807-A5CF-E1431D010A6A[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Thank you Suzanne!!! For some reason I thought I should be able to do > everything from within the "Manage Styles" button. Whew - what a relief! > > Happy Thanksgiving to you - > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > >> The Styles panel has display options similar to those in the Styles & >> Formatting task pane in Word 2002/2003. Click on Options and choose >> "Recommended" (the default) or "In use" or "In current document" instead >> of >> "All styles," which is what it's probably currently displaying. >> >> -- >> Suzanne S. Barnhill >> Microsoft MVP (Word) >> Words into Type >> Fairhope, Alabama USA >> >> "Anne" <Anne[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:620769C5-A1D7-46C1-95A8-8BB7FFFF8027[ at ]microsoft.com... >> > I'm still not used to using the Quick Style Gallery in Word 2007, and >> > prefer >> > to view the list of styles on the right side of the screen. >> > >> > I wanted to change the styles that appear in the list on the right side >> > of >> > the screen (I think this is the "Styles" pane). I tried using the >> > Manage >> > Styles button, and ended up accidentally selecting every predefined >> > style >> > in >> > Word to appear in that pane. Ooops! Not exactly what I intended to >> > do. >> > >> > Of course, I don't want to see that many styles. To try to fix this, I >> > went >> > back into Manage Styles, and selected (as a test) a single Style and >> > clicked >> > Hide, and then that style is indeed no longer shown in the Quick Style >> > Gallery. However it still appears in the Styles pane! Is there a way >> > for >> > me >> > to hide some styles that are now shown in the Styles pane? >> > >> >> >>

Re: Showing/Hiding Styles in Word 2007 McSwell <maxwell[ at ]umiacs.umd.edu> 12/8/2008 3:53:33 PM On Nov 26, 1:55 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...[ at ]mvps.org> wrote: [Quoted Text] > TheStylespanel has display options similar to those in theStyles& > Formatting task pane inWord2002/2003. Click on Options and choose > "Recommended" (the default) or "In use" or "In current document" instead of > "Allstyles," which is what it's probably currently displaying. AFAICT, neither "In use" nor "In current document" reliably shows the styles that are in use in the current document (and as you can see, I have no idea what the difference between those two terms is supposed to be). Rather, what they do seems to be dependent on whether a style is on the recommended list. Specifically, I had a doc with a paragraph in Body Text. I could verify that it's in this style by choosing to show "All styles", in which case "Body Text" appears and is highlighted (there's a blue box around it). But with both "In use" and "In current document", "Body Text" failed to appear in the list of styles. "Normal" (which I never use) and "List paragraph" (which I don't recall ever using) do appear in the list if I choose "In current document", but not if I choose the list for "In use"; and I can confirm that neither is actually used _in the current document_ by clicking on the hidden down arrow to their right in the Styles pane. It turns out that I can fix this by modifying what styles show up as Recommended (see instructions here: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3224590.php), the "Body Text" style can be made to appear, and the "Normal" style to disappear, in the "In Use" and "In current document" views of the Styles pane. (The "In current document" view still shows the un-used "List Paragraph" style; guess I have to remove that from the Recommended list too.) Also, the order that the styles are listed in the Styles pane appears to depend on the numbers assigned in the "Manage Styles" dialog; there's no way to automatically order them alphabetically, which would be my preference. Sheesh... took me awhile to figure this much out, and I'm still confused! Mike Maxwell