It’s not as big an issue with today’s systems loaded with RAM, but removing the unused styles is an option.

In a large document with lots of custom styles that you’re not using, you might see a bit of a performance hit.

There are three good reasons you might want to remove a document’s unused styles: Add customized styles, and you can see things grow out of hand. Most of us use only a few styles in an ordinary document, but the underlying template contains dozens of built-in styles. Why should you remove unused styles in Word? Word for the web doesn’t support VBA procedures. For your convenience, you can download the demonstration. I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use an earlier version. SEE: Software Installation Policy (TechRepublic Premium) More about Software Keep in mind that you can’t delete built-in styles at all though, so this is a solution for documents with unused custom styles.

In this article, I’ll show you a VBA procedure that will remove all unused styles in the current document. The Styles pane does a good job of reducing the number of styles you interact with but in the end, you might want to delete all unused styles from a finished document.

One of the main reasons styles confound users is because there are so many of them and most go unused. On the other hand, some users might think of styles as a formatting jungle.

If you use Word to write the occasional letter, you probably don’t think about Word styles too often.

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