Dear All, I have a problem that perhaps the list can help me with. I have finished a book in Word that has been accepted and has to be delivered to the publisher. The publisher's submission requirements ask that styles not be used. But the book has lots of formatting that I need to keep.



Is there a way to keep all the formatting, but get rid of the use of styles? For example, block quotes would remain indented, but would no longer correspond to a "block quote" style that I used while writing.

Thanks in advance!

Oh, I see this has already been discussed, here: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...ormatting.html

This is a bit complicated since my document has lots of footnotes, but unless anyone suggests anything simpler, this is what I'll have to do. Thanks!

Save as pdf?

Thanks, but the publisher needs a Word document.

I would guess that Paul's procedures will be your best bet.

Note, all Word documents contain and use styles. You might want to point that out to your publisher. The publisher apparently wants one that uses direct formatting on top of the Normal style.

Thank you.