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Select Create a Style from the contextual menu and Save Selection as a New Quick Style, enter a name for the style, and click OK. To Check Your Styles: Select the text you wish to check. Click the Dialog Box Launcher in the Styles group on the Home tab of the Ribbon. Click the Style Inspector button in the Styles task pane. To open the Style Inspector, do the following: 1. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the dialog box launcher: 2. In the Styles pane, click the Style Inspector button: In the Style Inspector pane, you can click next buttons: Reset to Normal Paragraph Style - Click this button to replace the paragraph's current style with the Normal style.

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The Style Inspector is a pane that shows you the paragraph formatting separated from the textformatting. To open the Style Inspector, do the following:

1. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click thedialog box launcher:

2. In the Styles pane, click the Style Inspector button:

In the Style Inspector pane, you can click next buttons:

  • Reset to Normal Paragraph Style - Click this button to replace the paragraph's current stylewith the Normal style. (If the paragraph already uses Normal style, clicking thisbutton has no effect.)
  • Clear Paragraph Formatting - Click this button to remove any direct formatting that has beenapplied to the paragraph (to restore the paragraph to the formatting contained in its style). Forexample, if someone has changed the line spacing or tabs directly (rather than in style),clicking this button restores them to the style's settings.
  • Clear Character Style - Click this button to restore the Default Paragraph Font forthe style. Removing any (or all) character styles like this is often useful.
  • Clear Character Formatting - Click this button to remove any direct formatting applied on topof the character style. This has the effect of reapplying the character style. If the characters useDefault Paragraph Font rather than another character style, clicking this button restores thefont formatting in the paragraph style.
  • Clear All - Click this button to remove all the formatting and reapply theNormal style.

Click the New Style button to open the larger Create New Style From Formatting dialog box. Click the RevealFormatting button to open the Reveal Formatting pane (see the Reviewthe text formatting quickly using the Reveal Formatting task pane).

See also this tip in French:Utiliser l'Inspecteur de style.

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The Document Inspector gives users an easy way to examine documents for personal or sensitive information, text phrases, and other document contents. They can use the Document Inspector to remove unwanted information; for example, before distributing a document.

Note

Microsoft does not support the automatic removal of hidden information for signed or protected documents, or for documents that use Information Rights Management (IRM). We recommend that you run the Document Inspector before you sign a document or invoke IRM on a document.

As a developer, you can use the Document Inspector framework to extend the built-in modules and integrate your extensions into the standard user interface.

The Document Inspector in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint includes the following enhancements.

Built-in Document Inspector modules

The Document Inspector has modules that help users inspect and fix specific elements of a given document. The Document Inspector includes the following built-in modules.

For all Office documents

  • Embedded documents
  • OLE objects and packages
  • Data models
  • Content apps
  • Task Pane apps
  • Macros and VBA modules
  • Legacy macros (XLM and WordBasic)

For Excel documents

  • PivotTables and slicers
  • PivotCharts
  • Cube formulas
  • Timelines (cache)
  • Custom XML data
  • Comments and annotations
  • Document properties and personal information
  • Headers and footers
  • Hidden rows and columns
  • Hidden worksheets and names
  • Invisible content
  • External links and data functions
  • Excel surveys
  • Custom worksheet properties

For PowerPoint documents

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  • Comments and annotations
  • Document properties and personal information
  • Invisible on-slide content
  • Off-slide content
  • Presentation notes

For Word documents

  • Comments, revisions, versions, and annotations
  • Document properties and personal information; this includes metadata, SharePoint properties, custom properties, and other content information
  • Custom XML data
  • Headers, footers, and watermarks
  • Invisible content
  • Hidden text

Opening the Document Inspector

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To open the Document Inspector:

  1. Choose the File tab, and then choose Info.

  2. Choose Check for Issues.

  3. Choose Inspect Document.

Use the Document Inspector dialog box to select the type or types of data to find in the document.

After the modules complete the inspection, the Document Inspector displays the results for each module in a dialog box. If a given module finds data, the dialog box includes a Remove All button that you can click to remove that data. If the module does not find data, the dialog box displays a message to that effect.

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If you choose to remove the data for a given module, the dialog box displays descriptive text that indicates whether the operation was successful or not. If the Document Inspector encounters errors during the operation, the module is flagged, displays an error message, and the data for that module does not change.

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