Find and Delete Style Sheets Not Being Used
Working with Style Sheets makes text formatting MUCH more efficient. (But you already knew that!)
Sometimes, you need to find all the Style Sheets that aren’t being used in a document: perhaps you’re re-using an old document with irrelevant Style Sheets. Or perhaps you’re creating a complex project and have “leftover” Style Sheets that you won’t use.
Fortunately, QuarkXPress makes it easy to see and optionally remove any or all Style Sheets not in use. Here’s how:
- Choose Edit> Style Sheets
- Click the dropdown menu labeled “Show“
- Choose Style Sheets Not Used
Only the unused Style Sheets appear in the list, where you can explore them and select one or more to delete.
Related tip: As Andy Smith points out, this technique also works with unused colors! Just choose Edit> Colors and repeat the steps above. For a description and video of exactly that, see our post here.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
This technique works well with colours as well!
Andy: Indeed! I think I’ll add that to the post right now… :-)
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