In this case we are not dealing with a few words or lines within a
parragraph. Try this. Type "Good Morning" in Normal. Then highlight the text
and select Intense Reference as a style, which in my case makes the text a
bold italic in blue. Now, say you change your mind. Re-highlight the text and
select Normal. The text stays a bold italic in blue. Why? Normal does not
enforce the text settings. It should. If you set a style to be not Bold and
not Italic then why does it not reformat to not Bold and not Itlaic? I think
Word is broken. There maybe something tricky with linked-styles or other
settings, but a straight foward design would be if the font is set to not
Italic then the text should not be in Italic regardless of what it was before.
"PamC via OfficeKB.com" wrote:
How applying styles to parts of paragraphs works depends on whether linked
styles are enabled.
If linked styles are not enabled (by putting a checkmark the the box next to
_disable linked styles_ in the Styles pane) and you are applying a style to
a selection, the whole paragraph will take on the style€”whether the new style
is linked or not. This behavior is also different from W2003's.
If linked styles are enabled and if you are applying a linked style to a
selection, only the selection will take on the style. If the style you are
applying is not linked, the whole paragraph takes on the new style--except
when the nonlinked style is normal. Normal will change the paragraph to
normal only if the whole paragraph is selected or if the insertion point is
in the paragraph but nothing is selected.
I think this is the behavior you have seen. If you prefer not to bother with
this bit of complexity, disable linked styles.
HTH,
Pam
gj49 wrote:
Yes, pressing the Ctl-space bar works. Thank you.
I see now where the style type is indicated in the style setup window as
Character or Parragraph. It would be helpful if that were indicated on the
block displays of the styles.
Also, I seem to remember that Normal would enforce both parragraph and
character formatting in previous versions of Word. It is marked as a
Parragraph style. One would thing it would be a Character style or both.
Can a style enforce both parragraph and character formatting? I've tried to
do this with a new style I defined and I cannot create a style that will
override a Character style unless I call it a Character style and that type
of style cannot be based off of Normal.
The style you mention is probably a character style, which is applied on top
of the paragraph style. You can remove direct font formatting (including
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Normal
revert the text back to the original Normal style?
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