Well, since paragraph styles apply both character and paragraph
formatting, the need for direct character formatting should be
limited.
But, in cases where direct character formatting *is* needed, I
honestly doubt that it would be relevant (to the document structure)
whether it was applied as direct formatting or as a character style.
Still, if you want to encourage users to apply character styles, a
good start would be to attach the Emphasis and Strong character styles
to the Ctrl+I and Ctrl+B shortcuts, respectively.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
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Users are advised to use paragraph styles as opposed to direct
formatting
not only because it's easer to apply and change complex formatting
that
way but also because various problems arise from direct formatting.
Most
infamous are the problems in directly applying numbering to a list.
Do similar warnings apply to using direct character formatting?
Here's one
such warning that I encountered recently, at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/FastTables.htm
. Applying manual formatting is very resource-hungry - apply
predefined
styles instead.
This isn't exactly analogous to the warnings about direct paragraph
formatting, because the adverse consequences affect the functioning
of the
computer rather than the outcome. Still, it's a good reason not to
use
direct formatting in tables. Is this stricture limited to tables?
When
should the user be wary of applying direct character formatting?
Stephen Diamond
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:10:21 -0700, Stefan Blom
wrote:
Like paragraph styles, character styles help you apply consistent
formatting to text. And of course, modifying a character style
immediately reformats any text where that style is applied.