Make Styles pane stop jumping

Question

I have a long list of styles in my template. I'm reformatting a document and I want the Styles list to stay in a particular area, but every time I click in the document, the Styles pane jumps to whatever style my cursor is in. This is incredibly irritating

• how do I turn it off?

Answer 1

I am quite sure.

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You can use the Feedback mechanism in Office or post directly to UserVoice to let developers know what you want.

https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-f...

Answer 2

Hi,

If you are talking about the position of the Styles Pane in your window, you can double-click on the top of the pane to move it to the right side of the Window.

If you are talking about the rectangle with the Style Name in it moving to match the style in use, you can't change that. You can hide the Style Pane, itself.

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

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Regards

Answer 3

I was talking about the rectangle. The style in use has always been highlighted with a rectangle, but in the new versions of Word, the styles list actually jumps there now, which is extremely inconvenient when I need it to stay put. Are you sure there's no way to turn off the jumping?

Thanks for your reply, Charles.