Word is a style based application. Every paragraph of the document is
formatted with a particular style. If you format your document with suitable
styles and avoid direct formatting, then the formatting of the current
paragraph is indicated by the style associated with that paragraph.
There are no reveal codes in Word, because Word doesn't use them. If you are
concerned about manual formatting, then select the text and press CTRL+SPACE
which will force the text to revert to the underlying style - or paragraph
formatting CTRL+Q will revert to the original paragraph format. You don't
have to see how it is formatted, the style defines that.
If you cannot discern whether a comma is italicised or not by looking at it,
then neither can anyone else, but whether it is or not will be indicated by
the formatting of the style in which it sits.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
ALeiS wrote:
Ok genious, how do you see ALL the text formatting at the same time?
For example, in the world of legal writing, it is important that text
and citations
use several different text attributes (italics, smallcaps, underline,
bold), and
there are people who get upset if a comma isn't italicized. It's a
real pain to
have to arrow through the text a letter at a time to check on the font
attributes, and it's too easy to miss things like that just by
glancing over the text and trying to guess based on visual
impression. I am not one of those individuals gifted with the
ability to discern whether or not a comma is italicized. So is there
or is there not a way to see all the attibutes or formatting or codes
or whatever you want to call them--all at the same time and not in
some box floating at the right of the page that only shows the
attributes of a little piece at a time?
"Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote:
You might want to read this article...
Is there life after "Reveal Codes"?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm
And you might also want to learn how Word works. Realize it is NOT WP
and works differently.
Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:23:02 -0700, "Rachel King" Rachel
wrote:
Help. Please urge Microsoft to give us "REVEAL CODES" like the
reveal codes in Corel's WORD PERFECT not the "reveal codes" in
Microsoft Word. Microsoft words' reveal codes is worthless -- it
only shows some codes, That's why I still love Corel's Word Perfect
because when we have a problem with formatting or anything we can
turn on "reveal codes" and we can see every single code and we can
try to delete various codes to ascertain what is causing the
problem. I still don't know how or why some key strokes cause
different effects and if we had "reveal codes" which would reveal
ALL codes, we could figure out what causes problems on our own. We
need to be able to troubleshoot ourselves and we cannot so long as
we do not have reveal codes!