delete styles from normal.dot

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Word 2002 SP3

What is the preferred way of deleting custom styles I added to the
normal.dot template?
Tx.
 
Open Normal.dot for editing, go to Format | Style (you can get there from
the Styles and Formatting task pane by choosing Custom, then clicking
Styles... in the Format Settings dialog), select "User-defined styles" view,
select the style to be deleted, and click Delete. When you've deleted all
the styles you don't want, save Normal.dot.

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Words into Type
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Suzanne said:
Open Normal.dot for editing, go to Format | Style (you can get there from
the Styles and Formatting task pane by choosing Custom, then clicking
Styles... in the Format Settings dialog), select "User-defined styles" view,
select the style to be deleted, and click Delete. When you've deleted all
the styles you don't want, save Normal.dot.
Click to expand...
Thanks.
I ended up using the "organizer" under Tools|Addins and Templates, etc.
How to restore the normal.dot to only the original styles that came with
install (the default ones) without starting with brand new normal.dot
file (as this would lose my icon/toolbar customizations)?
Tx.
 
See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations
including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros,
etc.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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Yes, the Organizer is a better way. I so seldom use it that it didn't occur
to me. Also, I never create custom styles in Normal.dot, as I use only
custom templates.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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You are welcome. Hope it helps.
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Suzanne said:
Yes, the Organizer is a better way. I so seldom use it that it didn't occur
to me. Also, I never create custom styles in Normal.dot, as I use only
custom templates.
Click to expand...
Yes, that's what I sd do, use custom templates.
How do I get started with that, so that the styles will be there when I
am writing a regular letter?
Will I have to open up the customized template instead of Normal.dot or
use the organizer to copy from 1 to other every time?
 
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm for
general template information and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for specifics on letter
templates. Yes, you will need to select your template in the File New
dialog, but if you open Word only to create a document (that is, you don't
leave it running), you can put a shortcut to that template on your desktop
and use it to open Word with a new document based on your custom template.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.
 
For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog,
and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

Take a look at: How to set up letterhead or some other document where you
want one header on the first page and a different header on other pages.
http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step
instructions. (It also has the following links)

Some other pages to look at:

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#LetterheadTextboxesAndStylesTutorial
(for simulating different margins on different pages, among other things)


Template Basics
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm

How to Create a Template - Part 2 - essential reading
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

Word "Forms"
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms and

Word for Word Perfect Users
http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm if you are coming from a WP
environment (or even if you are not).

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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Suzanne said:
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm for
general template information and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for specifics on letter
templates. Yes, you will need to select your template in the File New
dialog, but if you open Word only to create a document (that is, you don't
leave it running), you can put a shortcut to that template on your desktop
and use it to open Word with a new document based on your custom template.
Click to expand...
For the both of you Suzanne & Charles:

What I found out is that custom styles can be available in a document
one creates or in the normal.dot (or other template) if one adds it to
the template.

My problem is that I am using custom styles to create an Outlook 2002
signature in html.

Thus if I DON'T add it to normal.dot, every time I create an email, the
styles are the ones included in normal.dot only by default, which does
not seem to contain the custom style I created. OR at the minimum, there
seems to be a conflict between some styles due to names of styles as my
customized "hyperlink" style does not take in OL signature once I create
a new message if I don't add it to normal.dot (with a different name
than "hyperlink".) [Maybe that's where I went wrong....]

Thus, to use custom styles in OL signatures, it LOOKS to me at least,
that I HAVE to add the custom style to normal.dot as that is what OL
uses when it creates a "New Message". Can you confirm?

I really don't like adding all kinds of styles to normal.dot or making
lots of changes to it as I might screw it up, etc. I'd much rather
create styles in a template called custom.dot, for example; but.....

Looking forward to your comments.
[I might post this in the OL NG as well....]
 
Since I don't use Outlook for mail (and wouldn't use Word as the email
editor even if I did), I'll bow out at this point.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

sat said:
Suzanne said:
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm for
general template information and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for specifics on letter
templates. Yes, you will need to select your template in the File New
dialog, but if you open Word only to create a document (that is, you don't
leave it running), you can put a shortcut to that template on your desktop
and use it to open Word with a new document based on your custom template.
Click to expand...
For the both of you Suzanne & Charles:

What I found out is that custom styles can be available in a document
one creates or in the normal.dot (or other template) if one adds it to
the template.

My problem is that I am using custom styles to create an Outlook 2002
signature in html.

Thus if I DON'T add it to normal.dot, every time I create an email, the
styles are the ones included in normal.dot only by default, which does
not seem to contain the custom style I created. OR at the minimum, there
seems to be a conflict between some styles due to names of styles as my
customized "hyperlink" style does not take in OL signature once I create
a new message if I don't add it to normal.dot (with a different name
than "hyperlink".) [Maybe that's where I went wrong....]

Thus, to use custom styles in OL signatures, it LOOKS to me at least,
that I HAVE to add the custom style to normal.dot as that is what OL
uses when it creates a "New Message". Can you confirm?

I really don't like adding all kinds of styles to normal.dot or making
lots of changes to it as I might screw it up, etc. I'd much rather
create styles in a template called custom.dot, for example; but.....

Looking forward to your comments.
[I might post this in the OL NG as well....]
Click to expand...
 
Suzanne said:
Since I don't use Outlook for mail (and wouldn't use Word as the email
editor even if I did), I'll bow out at this point.
Click to expand...
I hear OL2007 part of Office 2007 makes use of Word as html editor by
default and hard coded....

In any event, I've never seen something as complicated as handling
styles in Word....
 
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