Phantom Style

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I'm using Word 2003 and I'm trying to delete what I call a phantom style.

In the Styles and Formatting Task Pane, the majority of the styles have
either a paragraph indicator or a character indicator to show what type of
formatting will be done. However I have one style where this is not the
case. There is no indicator in the far right column. It also does not show
up in the organizor or on the search list for formats.

When I right click on this phantom style, it indicates that it's being used
in one instance. When I try to locate that instance, I can't. I've
displayed the paragraph style names in the document window, it's not there.

When I try to delete it, it creates a new style with a different name.

What can I do to delete this style?
 
No indicator usually means it is manual formatting rather than a style.

Do you have tables in your document? If the formatting is applied to an
end-of-cell-marker or end-of-row-marker, it can be a bit cumbersome to get
rid of it, since "Select all instances" does not work.

Even worse is when your tables have merged cells. Word keeps track of the
formatting of the cells you have merged (and so does not really exist any
more at all).
That formatting only re-appears if you split the merged cell(s) again, and
only then you would be able to get rid of it.

:-( Klaus
 
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