Word without proliferation of styles

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

All,

Document was created in Word 2003, several years ago, 
and great care was taken to create and use only a 
limited set of styles (none based on Normal), with 
almost no spot formatting. 

Document was then used by other parties as basis 
for documenting an offshoot product. The other 
persons entirely ignored styles, did everything 
via spot formatting, and even imported sections 
from other docs - which brought in hundreds more 
styles.

Offshoot product became mainstream and landed back 
on my table. 

I stopped counting at around 1000 "styles". 

I'm thinking that the best approach is to just 
suck it all into Notepad, then start pasting, 
piecemeal, into a clean LibreOffice document, 
and applying the clean style scheme from there. 

But, if there's a reasonable way to attack the 
clean-up in Word, I might try that. 

This is not something I expect to do every year, 
or even three, so it's not really worthwhile to 
invest a lot of money or time in tools or learning 
the scripting or otherwise ramping up to tackle 
just two docs, totalling less than 300 pages between 'em. 

What would you do?



Kevin McLauchlan
Senior Technical Writer
SafeNet, Inc.
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