You are definitely reinventing the wheel! When you create a style, you can
wrap quite a lot of formatting into it and then apply it with one stroke,
either by selecting the style from the Style dropdown or Styles & Formatting
task pane, or by using a keyboard shortcut you've assigned to the style
(some styles have built-in shortcuts) or a toolbar button you've assigned to
the style (note in the Customize dialog that there is a category for styles,
and you can add any one of them to a toolbar).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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On 5/24/2010 9:39 AM, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I would advise against modifying Normal style because most other styles
are based on it and will be affected (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sCascade.html). Instead,
find and use the built-in Body Text First Indent style, which has a
default first-line indent of 0.15". This can be modified to 0.13". The
built-in style also has 6 points Spacing After, but this can be removed
if desired. See also
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm.
Thank you. I created it as a new style, and - because I am not yet
comfortable uising styles - I created a macro which creates that indent on
paragraphs I select. I then put the macro shortcut on the Word toolbar for
easy access. Seems simplest way for me.
I will also study your styles link.
Thank you Suzanne. You are great - as usual.
Jeff