Batch file for deleting paragraph and character styles

[Kristen Abbott]

Hi,

It's not a batch file, but what I do is open the Paragraph Catalog
and/or Character Catalog and delete everything. Yup! Nuke it all.

Then I do this:

File > Utilities > Create and apply formats

It goes through and re-creates only the styles used in that FM file. If
you have any tags with overrides, they show up in the list with the name
of the tag they are based on, and an incremental number, such as Body,
Body1, Body2, etc. You can then re-apply the base tag, or keep the
override (or create a new tag for it).

To clean up the other book files, you can then either do the same thing
in all the other files in the book, or keep this file open, open the
other files, and do File > Import > Formats, selecting the cleaned-up
file to import from.

I use FM8.  YMMV.

-Kristen Abbott