Reply To: Object styles empty/invisible :(

problem serendipitously solved!!

I had to pull the tab away from the organized tabs column into a freestanding window. Make sure it's in the regular rectangular mode (not the mode where it's a little icon box with an expanded window attached to it) then I double clicked the up and down carrots button next to the “object styles” label a couple of times and they reappeared along with all the handy buttons and the scroll bar etc.