Purge Styles dialog box

Purges unused styles and substyles from the current document. Dependent substyles are not listed.

Some style types require substyles to be fully defined. For example, a dimension style needs a text substyle to define the font used to display the dimension. The text style in this case is used indirectly as a substyle of the dimension style, but the same text style may be used directly in another case, such as when a text style is applied to a block of text.

Access

Ribbon: Manage tab Styles and Standards panel Purge

Click a column heading to sort contents. All columns resort to correspond with the new order.

Document Name

Shows file name in which the style is used.

Style Name

Lists styles in the current document.

Type

Identifies the style type.

Changes

Indicates if a style was changed in the document or library.

Purge?

Indicates individual unused styles to delete. If Yes, the style in the document is deleted. If No, the style is retained in the current document.

Click Yes to All to delete all unused styles in the document or No to All to retain the unused styles in the current document.

Select the Purge Substyles check box to delete unused substyles when a referencing style is deleted. Clear the check box to retain the substyles when a parent style is deleted.

Select the Purge Styles from all Child Documents check box to purge styles in referenced files. Child document file names are not listed in the document name column. Clear the check box to purge styles in the parent document only.