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                <div><div class="section"><p>When you delete a style, you can
select a different style to replace&#160;it, and you can choose
whether to preserve the formatting. When you delete a style group,
you delete all styles within the group. You are prompted to replace
each style in the group one at a time.</p>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the style name in the Styles panel.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>Choose Delete Style in the panel menu or
click the Delete icon&#160;<img src="images/P_Delete_Wi_N.png" /> at
the bottom of the panel.</p>
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<li><p>Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac&#160;OS)
the style, and then choose Delete Style. This method is especially
useful for deleting a style without applying it to text.</p>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Delete Paragraph Style dialog box, select the
style to replace&#160;it.</span> <p>If you select [No Paragraph Style] to replace a paragraph
style or [None] to replace a character style, select Preserve Formatting
to keep the formatting of text to which the style is applied. The
text preserves its formatting but is no longer associated with a
style.</p>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click&#160;OK.</span></li>
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<div class="section"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />To delete all unused styles, choose Select
All Unused in the Styles panel menu, and then click the Delete icon.
When you delete an unused style, you are not prompted to replace
the style.</div></div>
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