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> Is there a tool out there that allows you to clean up MS Word?
>
> We are trying to apply a template but many styles are redundant and I
> am wondering if there is a tool that can identify the styles that have
> different names but the same formatting.
>
> In short, I am wondering how we can have clean documents without
> having to paste everything as text and reformatting everything from
> scratch. Is this possible?
If you use Word's save-as HTML, then apply one of more of:
But HTML is all ASCII text, so (with or without the cleanups
suggested above) you should be able to open it in any text
editor and use search-and-replace to your heart's content.
That should let you fix any tagging oddities.
Then read it back into Word and apply more tags as needed.
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