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using Word in a 'semantic' way
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Are there any settings or websites with tips on how to use Word more as a 'semantic' word processor? I would be happy if there was a way to turn off the 'automatic generation of styles' 'feature'. What I mean is the following: when I create a style that I call 'important' and I make it red and bold, and I select a word and make it in the style 'Important'; and then select a couple of letters in the word and make it green, a style is created called 'Important + green'. I don't want that, I want it to be impossible to set settings that do not conform to any text that I explicitly defined. This is particularly annoying when copy-and-pasting html; that creates a load of styles that I don't want. Also when I delete a style, I'd like to be able to enter a style that I want to replace the one that I deleted with; the current behaviour resets the style of text to 'Normal' after which I have to hunt through my whole document finding text that previously was of the style that I deleted. Thanks. cheers, roel |
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On the Edit tab of Tools | Options, clear the box for "Keep track of
formatting." -- 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. "Roel Vanhout" wrote in message ... Hi, Are there any settings or websites with tips on how to use Word more as a 'semantic' word processor? I would be happy if there was a way to turn off the 'automatic generation of styles' 'feature'. What I mean is the following: when I create a style that I call 'important' and I make it red and bold, and I select a word and make it in the style 'Important'; and then select a couple of letters in the word and make it green, a style is created called 'Important + green'. I don't want that, I want it to be impossible to set settings that do not conform to any text that I explicitly defined. This is particularly annoying when copy-and-pasting html; that creates a load of styles that I don't want. Also when I delete a style, I'd like to be able to enter a style that I want to replace the one that I deleted with; the current behaviour resets the style of text to 'Normal' after which I have to hunt through my whole document finding text that previously was of the style that I deleted. Thanks. cheers, roel |
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"Roel Vanhout" wrote:
Hi, Are there any settings or websites with tips on how to use Word more as a 'semantic' word processor? I would be happy if there was a way to turn off the 'automatic generation of styles' 'feature'. What I mean is the following: when I create a style that I call 'important' and I make it red and bold, and I select a word and make it in the style 'Important'; and then select a couple of letters in the word and make it green, a style is created called 'Important + green'. No, it isn't. The pane is called "Styles and *formatting* pane", and it shows manual formatting, too, if you have "Keep track of formatting" checked, as Suzannes reply indicated. You can see what's a style from the little symbols on the right (¶, ª). I don't want that, I want it to be impossible to set settings that do not conform to any text that I explicitly defined. Then don't use manual formatting! It's your choice wherther you want to mess up your document. Word won't keep you from doing so unless you explicitly tell it to. In Word2003, you can limit your formatting to a specific set of styles. Clearing the check mark in "Tools Edit Keep track of formatting" will just hide the mess you make. This is particularly annoying when copy-and-pasting html; that creates a load of styles that I don't want. Completely different, and that doesn't "create" any styles either. Pasted HTML can come with its own styles. If you don't want those, "paste special" as plain text, and then apply your own styles. Also when I delete a style, I'd like to be able to enter a style that I want to replace the one that I deleted with; the current behaviour resets the style of text to 'Normal' after which I have to hunt through my whole document finding text that previously was of the style that I deleted. Thanks. With that, I very very much agree!! Cheers, Klaus |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
On the Edit tab of Tools | Options, clear the box for "Keep track of formatting." Aha, is that what that means! Thank yuo very much! cheers, roel |
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Klaus Linke wrote:
Are there any settings or websites with tips on how to use Word more as a 'semantic' word processor? I would be happy if there was a way to turn off the 'automatic generation of styles' 'feature'. What I mean is the following: when I create a style that I call 'important' and I make it red and bold, and I select a word and make it in the style 'Important'; and then select a couple of letters in the word and make it green, a style is created called 'Important + green'. No, it isn't. The pane is called "Styles and *formatting* pane", and it shows manual formatting, too, if you have "Keep track of formatting" checked, as Suzannes reply indicated. You can see what's a style from the little symbols on the right (¶, ª). Aha I never knew what those signs meant, but indeed, now I see. This is particularly annoying when copy-and-pasting html; that creates a load of styles that I don't want. Completely different, and that doesn't "create" any styles either. Pasted HTML can come with its own styles. If you don't want those, "paste special" as plain text, and then apply your own styles. Ok thanks, I'll do that from now on cheers, roel |
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