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Old 09-19-2017, 08:01 AM
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Hi all. New member. For a recent project at work I'm tasked with creating a template for a new series of docs. The docs will only need, at the most, maybe 20 styles. As a start, I opened a new Word doc and saved it straight away as a .dotx doc. And it was saved to my Custom Office Templates folder.

Of course, this new template has all the baked in styles of the Normal template. What are there, 100 styles included? I won't be using most of them. And I will be changing the font of the Normal style to Arial 10. My plan was to delete the patently unneeded styles eventually. But I learned that the backed in styles cannot be deleted.

So back to the question, is this a "clean" template? FYI, my Word 2013, the whole office suite in fact, is a fairly recent install. Done last February, and not used for much except a few very simple docs. Letters and such mostly. So there shouldn't be any oddball styles saved to my Normal template.

Is it okay to have a template with all the default styles in there?

I guess another way of approaching the question is, is it even possible to create a new template that has NO initial styles? (Except for maybe Normal?)

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Old 09-19-2017, 08:53 AM
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I don't believe it matters how many styles are shown/listed. You can modify what is shown/listed using the HOME ribbon and clicking on the downward arrow from the STYLES section (in the lower right-hand corner) then selecting the OPTIONS at the lower right-hand corner of the STYLES menu.

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Thanks! For now my plan is just to set the template's Styles option of "Show styles in use". I don't want to bewilder the future authors with long list. And the template, for now anyway, will contain at least one example of each style.
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All documents in Word must have styles. You can't have a document without them, nor a template without them.
Spend as much time as you can learning how to use them to your advantage in your template. They are a powerful tool.
Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word

That said, you can certainly control which styles show up in the quick styles gallery and in various style lists.
How to control the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab in Word by Shauna Kelly
I would focus on this rather than on deleting styles. Many of them cannot be deleted, anyway.

You can also attach keyboard shortcuts to your custom styles and save those shortcuts in your template. (The shortcuts will work in documents created based on the template so long as the attachment is maintained.)
What content stays in a document created from a template when the template is no longer attached to the document?

You may want to modify the built-in heading styles. You won't be able to delete them, anyway. They can truly seem like magic in a Word document when properly used.
Why Use Word's Built-In Heading Styles? by Shauna Kelly
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Thanks also. Based on this info I feel pretty good about how my template is turning out.
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