Best way to produce a "clean" template? Word 2013

[SDwriter]

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?)