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Prevent 2013 built in style "Emphasis", "Intense Emphasis" from appearing in old documents as recommended styles

I have several older documents that I have gone through the effort to configure the Styles pane to have exactly the styles that I want.  However, when I open one of these documents in Word 2013, Word 2013 adds a series of styles that I don't want.  These include "Subtle Emphasis", "Emphasis", "Intense Emphasis", etc.  I personally feel this is a conspiracy by the developers of Word to annoy me.  Is there some way to keep these "new" styles from appearing in my old documents, short of having to reconfigure my recommended styles every time I open a new document?

Thanks.

John Federico

Emphasis has been a style at least since Word 97.

I am assuming you are opening a document created in a version of Word earlier than Word 2013.

First, normal practice for re-using an old document as a model for new work is not to open it and save under a new name, but rather to make it into a template and create a new document based on the template. Templates in Microsoft Word

Although I do not know it, I suspect that if your restrain the styles available in such a template, the restrictions will carry forward to new documents based on the template.

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Which particular options did you change? By default, the Style Pane Options dialog box shows the recommended styles. You would also have to specify, for each existing document, in the Manage Styles dialog box, which styles should be on the recommended list. (For future documents, you can make use of "New documents based on this template"; it copies the style modifications to the attached template.)

In addition, note that if you switch style sets (via the Design tab), styles that you have removed from the recommended list may resurface.

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