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Use of Character styles
In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons
shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted?
If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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What happens when you select text of your Table Grid style (to which you
never applied your character style) and press Ctrl-Spacebar? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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This is an annoying peculiarity of table styles. Perhaps you would have
better luck using highlighting or comments or Track Changes? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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Why not keep the character style, but instead of deleting it change its font
color back to black? "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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Hi Charles,
Selecting a text in a table, having been formatted by a Character style, after deleting the Character style and pressing Ctrl-Spacebar did not reset to the initial formatting. Any idea of why this does not work the same way as for Paragraph style formatted text outside a table? Charles Kenyon skrev: What happens when you select text of your Table Grid style (to which you never applied your character style) and press Ctrl-Spacebar? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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I'm not that familiar with table styles, but apparently they pick up
formatting from the Normal style if that style has been modified (see for example http://groups.google.se/group/micros...57e89780657952). What happens if you change the Normal style to the formatting you want for the table? Does that fix the problem? Of course, this means that any text currently using Normal would be formatted in the wrong manner. A workaround for this (in turn) is to apply a different style, formatted the way you like it. This is certainly an unintuitive way of doing things, but I guess it could be worth trying. Do the test on a copy of the document just in case! -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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What happens when you select text that has _not_ been formatted using your
Character style and press Ctrl-Spacebar? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Hi Charles, Selecting a text in a table, having been formatted by a Character style, after deleting the Character style and pressing Ctrl-Spacebar did not reset to the initial formatting. Any idea of why this does not work the same way as for Paragraph style formatted text outside a table? Charles Kenyon skrev: What happens when you select text of your Table Grid style (to which you never applied your character style) and press Ctrl-Spacebar? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... Stefan, Thanks for your quick replay. I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style the Character style was applied to. My experience was the following: - When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing the Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of the Paragraph style. - When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style Table Grid), removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial colour, but the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text size changed to 11pt (from 10pt). Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid inside tables to avoid this problem in tables? Stefan Blom skrev: Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly formatted? If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar to reset its font formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sverre Medalen" wrote in message ... In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other persons shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove the emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting. To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its colour to red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that character style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the font-family and size of the Paragraph style, as expected. Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text regained its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the font-family and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to give a text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph style when I delete the Character style? Regards, Sverre |
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