You can sometimes avoid the problem if you use a font for the headings =
that looks bold (such as "Arial Black").
Last time I said that I got flamed from here to hell because somebody =
thought "Arial Black" was an ugly font for headings, but you may have =
other fonts installed that work... "Arial Black" just happens to be =
available on most Word installations.

Regards,
Klaus


"Shauna Kelly" wrote:
Hi Andy
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it's like the 2 bolds cancel each other out;
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Exactly. So, define your "emphasised" character style as italic, not =
bold=20
italic.
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If this seems either frustrating or counter-intuitive, consider that=20
applying styles is giving Word an instruction. You can see the =
definitions=20
of styles in the Styles and Formatting pane, by hovering over the name =
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the style. And you can see that it is expressed as an instruction. So =
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style1 might be "Normal + Arial + Bold + 16pt", or some such.
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A character style is always applied on top of a paragraph style. All=20
character styles are defined as something like "Default Paragraph Font =
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Bold + Red". That means "The font of the underlying paragraph format + =
Bold=20
+ Red".
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So if style "emphasised" is "Default Paragraph Format + Italic", and =
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apply it to some text in paragraph style1, you'll get "Normal + Arial =
+ Bold=20
+ 16pt + Italic".
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And you're right: the on/off properties like bold, italic, underlined =
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act as toggles. So "Normal + Arial + Bold + Bold" displays as un-bold.
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Hope this helps.
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Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
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"Andy Fish" wrote in message=20
...
Thanks for the response Terry. The problem is that I don't see how I =
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avoid direct formatting.

e.g. say I have paragraph styles called style1 and style2 where =
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includes bold.

now say I have a character style called "emphasised" which is bold,=20
italic, underlined

If I take a paragraph in style2 and then apply the emphasised style =
to a=20
word within it, the word ends up not bold, so it's like the 2 bolds =
cancel=20
each other out; this is the behaviour I'm trying to avoid.

"TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message=20
...
Andy

The answer is that you should avoid using direct formatting =
otherwise
conflicts with toggled emphasis such as bold, underline and italics =
will
happen. You can remove the direct character formatting by using=20
Ctl+Spacebar
to reset a character of Ctrl+Q to reset a paragraph. Then apply the =
new
style to the characters or paragraph.

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Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"Andy Fish" wrote in message
...
: Hi all,
:
: Say I have a character style that is something like "font: arial =
8 pt
bold".
: If I apply it to a word in paragraph where the paragraph style =
already
: includes bold, the text becomes not bold, i.e. it seems to toggle =
it.
:
: Is there anyway to set up my character style so that it means =
"not=20
bold"
: rather than "toggle boldness"
:
: TIA
:
: Andy
:
:



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