ERROR MESSAGE
When you try to delete a style from a document with the use of a Visual
Basic for Applications macro, the following error message may appear:
Run-time error '5122':
This style name does not exist.
For example, when you run the following sample macro code to delete the
style "BodyTextIndent", the error message may appear.
Sub DeleteBuiltInStyle()
Dim odocStyle As Styles
Set odocStyle = ActiveDocument.Styles
odocStyles(wdStyleBodyTextIndent).Delete
End Sub
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THINGS TO TRY
The style you are trying to delete does not exist in the document.
To avoid receiving the error message when you delete a style from a
document, you must first verify that the style has been used in the
document.
The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro determines whether
the style (Body Text Indent) is being used in the document and, if it is
used, it removes the style. If the style does not exist in the document, no
message is displayed.
Sub DeleteBuiltInStyle()
Dim odocStyle As Styles
Set odocStyle = ActiveDocument.Styles
If odocStyle(wdStyleBodyTextIndent).InUse Then
odocStyle(wdStyleBodyTextIndent).Delete
End If
End Sub
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For additional information about deleting unused styles, please see the
following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
189297 WD2000: Sample VBA Code to Delete Built-In Style
193536 WD2000: How to Remove Unused Standard Styles from Document