I seem to remember an option which could show/hide this in the Styles Pane. It seems to have disappeared from the GUI in the most recent versions of Word.
There is a reference to such a option in
http://www.wordarticles.com/Articles...StylesPane.php which states
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The one exception is the item, “Clear All”, at the top. You may be able to hazard a guess as to what this does, and you probably wouldn’t be too far wide of the mark. There used to be a way to remove this, and still is, with VBA, or by manipulating the underlying XML, but I cannot find how to do so in the user interface.
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I was unable to find the VBA command that is alluded to here so I can only suggest that someone go back and test earlier versions of Word to see if the option exists somewhere there.