Ha! Yes, I thought of that, too. However, I typically get them AFTER they've
written their entire thesis (though I'm working on that). There are still a
large percent who know very little about Word and, other than using the
bullet or numbered list icons, have their entire thesis in Normal and all
"other" formatting has been done manually, still based on Normal. Even, for
some, tables! So using the Find & Replace would be equivalent to doing a
Select All and changing to Body Text. So...we may just need to rebuild the
template to include Body Text.
My next project, though is incorporating the autonumbering feature. Have you
written anything on that? It seems that autonumbering starts at the Heading 1
level. Is there any way to set the Chapter Title style for the top level so
that the first-level heading in a chapter (for which we are now using the
Heading 1 style) can be numbered at the 1.1 level? Heading 2 would be 1.1.1,
etc. Thanks.
--
Linda
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
They can't use Find and Replace to replace Normal with Body Text? This would
be something useful for them to learn.
To tell the truth, the first thing I do with any document I get is to apply
Body Text (or Body Text First Indent, as appropriate) to the entire thing,
then go through and tag the headings and whatnot appropriately.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Linda" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Suzanne. Our original template did use Body Text but then students
had to go through 150+ pages of text and graphics to change all their
original text (in Normal) to Body Text. We thought this would be simpler
for
them. Until we stumbled across this problem, of course.
--
Linda
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
This is one of the reasons we advise modifying Body Text and using that
as
the basic style for body text instead of Normal. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm. See also
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html
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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Linda" wrote in message
...
I'm running Office 2003. I have created a template for theses and
dissertations at San Diego State University, which is based on the
Normal
style that has been modified for 1.5 line spacing. However, for
tables, I
would like to retain single spacing that is the default in Word.
Problem 1: I am not allowed to modify the Table Normal style. I did go
to
Table Autoformat and changed the paragraph spacing for the Table Grid
style
to single spacing, but when I selected an "example table" in the
template
document (currently at 1.5 spacing) and applied the Table Grid style
(I
customized the style list so that it would appear), nothing changed. I
CAN
however insert a NEW table and it appears single spaced (that's
good!).
Problem 2: Students often begin their theses in Word before using the
template and are taught to use the Master Doc/Insert subdocs feature.
Even
doing this correctly, single-spaced tables in the original are changed
to
1.5
spacing, apparently picking up the spacing from the Normal style,
which I
assume is what "Table Normal" is based on. Students may have used any
of
the
autoformatted table styles available in Word and I would like them all
to
remain intact. How can I modify our template to accommodate this?
Thanks.
--
Linda