On 6/21/12, I posted a question with the above title and received expert advice that solved it. But now I'm facing a different problem and haven't been able to find a solution.



This question refers to Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.8.5. (The previous was Word 2008 and OS 10.6.8. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.)

When I open the Styles drop-down menu on a new document, the list is populated with a large number of styles I have never used and never will. Shadings and accents and grids with dark, medium and light options, for example. Navigating to the styles I want, which I do frequently with documents, takes unnecessarily long.

When I look at Format>Styles, the list shows "Styles in Use," and it includes only the styles I expect to see and want to use. None of the styles I want to remove from the new document list are shown, so I can't use the Organizer to delete the unwanted styles and customize the list to be user-friendly.

The drop-down menus in my documents that aren't new do not have all the extra styles, and they display only the ones I want.

Word 2011 also has a Styles area in the ribbon, which even on a new document does not show all the extra styles, just the ones I want.

I prefer the drop-down menu for navigating to change styles, and am wondering if there is any way to customize that menu on new documents so it appears the way it does on older documents. I don't understand what the difference is and would like to be able to control it rather than accept Word's default style presentation in the drop-down menu as my only choice.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

Tosh