[Stefan Blom]

"Distressed" wrote in message
...
Hi Robert,
I am sorry - it wasn't actually intentional that I started a new
topic - I
clicked new when I meant to click reply - then realising my mistake,
and
noticing that most threads only have about 5 posts MAX, I thought I
may as
well just do a new one - so I really didn't mean to offend you
(assuming I
did?)! sorry.


Staying in a thread is for practical reasons: so that you can follow a
discussion from start to finish. It is still possible to start a new
thread, but then you should include any relevant information from the
old thread (or preferably state its subject line, so that people can
search for it using google groups).

In my opinion, it is a good idea to start a new thread on essentially
the same topic if there has been no activity in the old thread for
several days. This makes it more likely that people actually see your
most recent follow-up questions.

Ok I will try the caption thing with Autotext. I couldn't
understand why
that actually worked yesterday but not today - so then I just
thought I had
imagined it working!

I agree Stefan's approach would work in many cases - but I think it
would be
tricky in my case so I will try your suggestion first... I have
wasted a lot
of time on formatting so have to leave it for now.


Robert's solution is definitely easier; there's no need to make things
more difficult than necessary! :-)

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



Thanks again - much appreciated
A

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Distressed wrote:
2. I don't have a problem with the numbering using captions,
but I thought
that Autotext would number things automatically? It seemed to
yesterday, but
now I am wondering if it was just because things had originally
been captions.
What is the point of Autotext if all it does is paste in a word?
If you use
Autotext is there no way for it to number automatically without
using the
caption function? In which case, I am back to square 1 with the
formatting
problem.

yes there is, and if you had stayed in the original thread and
asked...
but anyway. :-)


I can't quite believe that if you create a caption in Word it
HAS TO TREAT
the WHOLE line as a Caption. There MUST be some way to have a
split of
formats on one line surely?

I like Stefan's table approach (it's one easy way to separate
formatting); another would be to use a style separator; what I'm
proposing though is a simple AutoText. But to get the numbering
correct,
you have to

1. create one caption first in the desired numbering setup
(including
heading numbering),
2. make sure that the caption style is not bold,
3. follow the number with a tab character (set the tabstop through
the
caption style to your liking),
4. format everything but the tab character as "bold",
5. then select the whole paragraph including paragraph mark and
create
the AutoText from that.

Now, your AutoText will appear under the "category" Caption (which
is
the style). Wherever you insert it, you now have a line with the
label
in bold, followed by an unbolded tab. When you start to write the
actual
text, it will be not bolded.

HTH
Robert
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