Dave is frustrated by having to scroll through long drop-down lists of styles to find the one he is looking for. He wonders if there is a way to reorder the styles so that the ones that appear are those that are actually being used.
Using styles within a document or template is a great way to make sure you have a uniform look across multiple pages and documents. Sometimes, however, the list of styles can become long and not every style is needed for every project. Fortunately, Word allows you display only the styles you are using.
Figure 1. The Style Pane Options dialog box.
The styles that appear in the Styles pane are now only the styles that are being used in the current document.
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2018-10-24 09:43:04
Seamus McGrady
Having to do this everytime you open a document and the styles pane is a pain! Is there a way to default these options?
2018-01-27 06:26:53
David Hamilton
Tip - Displaying the Styles ... At last, a way of obtaining a simple list of those in use instead of fighting through those not in use. Thanks. But could the Styles Box in the ribbon at the top also be re-ordered to show those in use first?
2018-01-26 11:32:48
Justin Maar
Is there a way to change this setting globally so that every time you launch word it will automatically show Heading 2 if you use heading 1 (or even better- show Headings 1-4 by default before any heading is even used)?
2017-11-13 16:22:06
Derek Brown
Allen, the link "Microsoft Word Tips - Learn Word Faster!" is right next to the link for the Tip, so it's easy to err by clicking on that link instead of the one for the Tip. Could you or your web guru put more of a separation between them to make hasty clicking of the wrong one less likely?
Thx.
2017-01-26 15:49:55
Ted Duke
Word 2016. When the ribbon is not displayed other than the horizontal list "File Home..." etc., click on any word in the list. The ribbon will expand. Next, look at the lower extreme right side and you will see a small white "pin" icon. Move the cursor over it and a drop-down will appear. Click on it to pin the ribbon open. Ctrl-F1 will also do it.
When it is open, the icon changes to an inverted V. Clocking on that will pin the ribbon.
2017-01-25 13:26:39
Larry Watkins
How can I keep the styles pane from jumping back to the top every time I click a style selection?
(already learning a lot from this site)
2017-01-06 10:00:32
Matthew
Doesn't work for me I'm afraid, using Word 2011 for Mac. The new style I've created and used numerous times stubbornly refuses to show in the 'Styles in this document' or 'Styles in use' lists. Sigh.
Thanks for your tips though!
2016-07-09 09:03:01
Cynthia
I found the answer. I just right-click the item in the ribbon Style Gallery and select remove from Style Gallery for all the Styles that are not in my document. Because I followed your direction above, I know which styles are in my document, which makes it easy to know which styles to remove from the ribbon. Thank you very much; this makes it easy to add just the Styles I want to the ribbon.
2016-07-09 08:50:08
Cynthia Blanche
This helps but in Word 2007, it still shows styles that are not in my document in the Ribbon. How do I remove those styles from the ribbon.
2016-01-08 06:19:34
Prodanova
Thank you so much! It helped me a lot.
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