This issue was solved in 2003 with the task pane, but appears to have been
dropped with the move to 2007.
Obviously, docked windows that stack either by tab stacking, drop-down box
stacking or back button stacking are more desirable than multiple adjacent
docked windows that absorb all the real estate on either side of the window
regardless of the size of displayed content.
Not the first time a new version of MS Word has sacrificed useful
functionality from earlier versions, (that's why I still have 2003 installed,
and selected elements of 95, 2000 and XP
"Beth Melton" wrote:
I suspect your primary interest was seeing the current style and thought the
Styles combo box designed for the QAT would help but I see that's something
you've already tried.
For your longer style names, perhaps an alias would help?
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"Ed Brey" wrote in message
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An example of when both docking windows would be helpful is dealing with
heading levels. For example, from a new document, if I press
Shift+Alt+Right,
the style Heading 2 is applied. I can tell what the style is from either
the
Quick Styles control or the Styles window. Now, if I press Shift+Alt+Right
again, it becomes difficult to tell that I'm on Heading 3. I'd have to
remember what depth I am at or tell from the font, both of which are
unreliable when working in a complicated document. Otherwise, I have to
manually customize the list of visible styles in the Quick Styles or
Styles
list, but this takes effort and wastes screen real estate on styles that
are
easily keyboard selectable.
The Apply Styles (or Style Inspector) window is convenient because it
always
shows the current style. Adding the Style command to the Quick Access
Toolbar
helps sometimes, but it doesn't appear to be resizable. This makes it work
for headings, but for styles with longer names, it would still be helpful
to
have a way to always be able to see the current style and be able to
select a
new one, but without giving up too much horizontal space.