Syncing styles in books, deleting

I have a book that is a collection of 15 100-page coffee table photo books I'm designing in parallel. They all sync to a master template, which has a few master pages and extensive paragraph and character styles. The master pages and all styles in the destination docs are derived entirely from the master.
Please tell me there's a way to have the destination docs' styles sync completely with the master, including deleting styles and master pages deleted in the master. I need all of the destination docs styles to be an exact mirror of the template whenever I sync. IND is such a brilliant program in general that it can't be so badly designed that this isn't possible, that there is no OPTION at least to delete styles and master pages in the destination when syncing. This is creating nightmares for me and making all of my work far more complicated and time-consuming than it needs to be.

B r e t t wrote:
Thinking ahead is fine, but again design often doesn't work that way, and there's no reason at all that literal syncing of docs to a master, include deleting of style and master pages in the,  couldn't be an option when syncing.
So you need to ask yourself how your multi-document book became such a mess in the first place.
That's perhaps a bit out of line. I've been using Pagemaker/InDesign for 25 years now. It's not a mess any more than a typical website is a mess when you're working out the design. All I did was go back to my master and refine the styles and master pages, consolidating some of the styles, etc. It's very common in design to throw caution to the wind to some degree as you work things out, and then clean it up. The clean up part is not at all difficult when the tools are well designed.
Please keep in mind that us forum participants are unpaid volunteers who don't work for Adobe. Whether it's misguided thinking or not, we're trying to give something back to the community from which we've gotten a lot of help. Chances are if you're angry at the company or product because it disappoints or fails to fulfill an expectation, we're probably not too happy about the same situations.
As far as I know, PageMaker doesn't remove unused styles automatically; I didn't use it much, so perhaps I'm completely wrong.
The suggestion to file a formal feature request is a good one. Adobe products have a history of incorporating many of these requests in future releases, when practical, especially when there are many requests. The better you can describe the feature you want, the better the chance it has of becoming a reality.
It probably is possible to script what you're asking for. You might post a request on the scripting forum. Again, the better your description, the better its chances.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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