We use Word 2003 documents that have their styles locked down (via "Protect Document"). We have a strict list of styles because we later map the documents to XML.

The Problem: When we open our existing documents (2003) with Word 2007, extra "Built In" styles appear as options.



Why would Word 2007 be designed to insert these rediculous styles as options in a document that is supposed to be "Protected"?

It would be hard for us to manually convert all of our Word 2003 documents to 2007 and reconfigure the styles to be locked down.



Any ideas how to fix this?

thanks!