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Chuck...I had a similar situation. However, I found that in some
documents, even though there were 100+ defined tags, only a percentage
of them were used in a document.
So, before attempting to care about the definitions of all the styles, I
erased all of them from the P list, then added back only the styles that
were applied. I started at the top and scrolled down, made sure my
cursor hit every line. Each style that was defined but deleted from the
list had a * in the style name when viewed in the style window in the
menu bar. By the time I got half way through the document, 99% of the
styles were accounted for.
At the same time, I renamed some of them to conform with my paragraph
style naming conventions.
>There are more than 100 paragraph styles defined in
>a main chapter document.
>The default style information list ened up being nearly
>200 pages long. I ended up copying all the content into
>a blank Word document, then reducing the text size
>and creating a 3-column document to make it a manageable
>50 pages.
Why did you move them into a Word document...the plygin creates a
separate FM document, just use that, I also changed the output columns,
but to two column.
>Unless you object, I'd like to use this
>as a specific example (I'll be doing some
>general examples as well).
