Blank stlyes pane

[Ulodesk]

Here's a new one on me for you fellow sleuths out there. I was teaching some Word basics to a friend the other night; Word 2010. She had a document that had been converted from a text-editor type application. When I opened the styles pane to explain styles to her, it was completely blank!

I copied the document contents, pasted directly into a new Word doc, and opened the styles pane. It was normal, with a default selection of built-in styles showing.

Any idea what might cause the blank anomaly?

[Stefan Blom]

I have seen this, too, in documents created outside of Word. To fix the problem, do the following: Make sure that the affected document is the active window. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to display the Styles pane. Click the Options link. Word displays the Style Pane Options dialog box. Just clicking OK to verify the settings may suffice, but (just in case) you can change some settings in the dialog box. For example, choose something else in the "Select styles to show" drop down or change the option for sort. When you are done, click OK.

[Ulodesk]

Thanks, Stephan. Will give it a whirl.