How can I find out whether a style shows up in the ribbon in Word?

Aspose.Words Product Family
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For some reason “Header 1” has disappeared from the ribbon in Word. It is still in the document as I can find it in the styles collection using:

 var h1Exists = document.Styles.ToList().Exists(x => x.Name == "Heading 1");

Are there API calls that can:

  1. Determine if a document doesn’t have Heading 1 in the ribbon?
  2. Put Heading 1 back in the ribbon.
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@jherrmann3289 I apologize for the confusion. Aspose.Words API does not have the capability to directly interact with MS Word application or enable/disable features within Word using the API.

Alternatively, to apply a missing style from the Style gallery to text, you can follow these steps:

  1. Type the name of the style in the “Apply Styles” pane (you can open it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S).
  2. In the same dialog box, click the “Modify” button and ensure that “Add to the Styles gallery” is selected.
  3. Word will add the style to the gallery on the Home tab, making it accessible for future use.

I apologize for any confusion caused and thank you for use our product.

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Thanks for the reply. I wasn’t asking how to interact directly with Word.

I followed your suggestion and the style isn’t visible in that dialog.

I did try creating a new “Heading 1” and it does show up in the ribbon. I can probably add a new style then update all the Paragraphs/Runs in the document to use the new Style.

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@jherrmann3289 Heading 1 style is latent style and is not present in the document while it is not used in the document. You can use Style.IsQuickStyle property to specify whether this style is shown in the Quick Style gallery inside MS Word UI.

Document doc = new Document();

doc.Styles[StyleIdentifier.Heading1].IsQuickStyle = true;
doc.Styles[StyleIdentifier.Heading2].IsQuickStyle = true;
doc.Styles[StyleIdentifier.Heading3].IsQuickStyle = true;

doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.docx");
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Per my previous post, Heading1 is being used in the document but doesn’t show up in the Quick Style gallery.

I had already checked IsQuickStyle and is was already set to true. I checked again after this response and it is still true but doesn’t show up in the gallery. It also doesn’t show up in Word when I use Apply Style.

We have potentially 1000s of documents where this is the case and they were all created using Aspose.

I’m using Aspose.Words version 20.5.0. Is it possible this issue is corrected in a later version?

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@jherrmann3289 Could you please attach a simple document that demonstrates the problem? We will check it and provide you more information.

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AsposeSample.docx (98.4 KB)

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@jherrmann3289 Heading 1 style is not shown because locked flag is set for it:

<w:style w:type="paragraph" w:styleId="Heading1">
	<w:name w:val="heading 1"/>
	<w:basedOn w:val="Normal"/>
	<w:next w:val="Normal"/>
	<w:link w:val="Heading1Char"/>
	<w:uiPriority w:val="9"/>
	<w:qFormat/>
	<w:locked/>
	<w:rsid w:val="009D242B"/>

If remove this flag, the style is shown. Unfortunately, locked flag is not exposed in the public Aspose.Words API. I have logged a feature request WORDSNET-25544 for this. We will keep you informed and let you know once the issue is resolved.

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The issues you have found earlier (filed as WORDSNET-25544) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for .NET 23.10 update also available on NuGet.