How to bulk delete Character styles?

laz442 · September 5, 2019, 5:55am

Inherited complex document from Word original
Filled with WW8%TW#G Styles etc
Individual right click, delete… is very time consuming

How to “bulk” delete these style?

anon73440385 · September 5, 2019, 6:50am

Hello,

here is what worked for me:

Select Custom Styles (dropdown at bottom of navigator)
Select the custom styles you want to delete (while SHIFT key is pressed; multi-select is not possible in Hierarchical view of styles)
Right click -> Delete

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Note Any default style (default in the sense of “delivered with the software”) cannot be deleted at all.

Tested using:

Version: 6.3.0.4, Build ID: 057fc023c990d676a43019934386b85b21a9ee99
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.12; UI render: default; VCL: kde5; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US,Calc: threaded

laz442 · September 5, 2019, 8:21am

Thank you - that works.
Any ideas how to remove Syles that are in use? It says that “deleting will revert to parent style” - but this does not work - style is not deleted. Bug?

anon73440385 · September 5, 2019, 8:45am

On my system and version of LibreOffice deletion of a custom style in use instantaneously reverts to parent style as per warning message. Thus may be a bug within your version of LibreOffice – or a side effect of your document being a descendant of Word.

Hrbrgr · September 5, 2019, 6:05am

Mark your text. Click Format>Clear Direct Formatting (Ctrl+M). Your text will always keep a style (default). But you can assign styles to your text, including custom styles in LibreOffice.

laz442 · September 5, 2019, 6:25am

No, I want to remove the styles from the Style list navigator