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Word 2007: style name already exists or is a built-in style... but I can't find it!

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I'm tidying up a large Word 2007 document that has a lot direct formatting and inconsistently applied paragraph styles in it. I want to define a new style called "Section Heading", but am told that it's either a built-in style, or is already defined: I'm pretty sure it's not a built-in style, so I …

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Fix for: Word 2007: style name already exists or is a built-in style... but I can't find it!

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While I'm not sure how things got in the state they did, I've now found the "Section Heading" style and removed it, allowing me to add my own style with that name. Here's what I had to do: From the Styles section of the ribbon, click the bottom-most…

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