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Deleting Unwanted Styles

Summary: Custom styles can be a great help in formatting a worksheet. You may, at some point, want to get rid of all the custom styles within a given workbook. Here's a quick macro that can make that task easy. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007.)

When you work with other people who use Excel, it is not unusual to copy worksheets from their workbooks into your own workbook. When you do so, the worksheet isn't the only thing that is copied—Excel also copies their formatting styles to your workbook. Manually deleting the unwanted styles can be a hassle, depending on the number of styles. Removing user-defined styles is very easy, though, if you use a macro. The following macro will quickly delete the unwanted styles:

Sub StyleKill()
    Dim styT As Style
    Dim intRet As Integer

    For Each styT In ActiveWorkbook.Styles
        If Not styT.BuiltIn Then
            intRet = MsgBox("Delete style '" & styT.Name & "'?", vbYesNo)
            If intRet = vbYes Then styT.Delete
        End If
    Next styT
End Sub

The macro needs just a little user input. Whenever the macro detects a user-defined style, you are asked if you want to delete it. Clicking on the Yes button causes the style to be removed from the workbook.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2135) applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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