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Styles in Word 2007
In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top
left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's frustrating to not be able to see the styles used. Thanks. |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0700, PeterBBailey
wrote: In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's frustrating to not be able to see the styles used. Thanks. There are several solutions to this, but here's the one I think is the most elegant: The style dropdown that was on the Formatting toolbar in earlier versions of Word is still available and can be put on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT). Right-click the QAT and choose Customize. In the dialog, set the "Choose commands from" box to "Commands not in the Ribbon". Select the command that says "Style" and has a dropdown icon on the right side. Click the Add button and click OK. The toolbar will always show the style at the current insertion point, and you can use the dropdown to apply another style. To determine what styles appear in the list and in what order, open the Styles task pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom. You might also like the little floating dialog you get by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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"Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0700, PeterBBailey wrote: In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's frustrating to not be able to see the styles used. Thanks. There are several solutions to this, but here's the one I think is the most elegant: The style dropdown that was on the Formatting toolbar in earlier versions of Word is still available and can be put on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT). Right-click the QAT and choose Customize. In the dialog, set the "Choose commands from" box to "Commands not in the Ribbon". Select the command that says "Style" and has a dropdown icon on the right side. Click the Add button and click OK. The toolbar will always show the style at the current insertion point, and you can use the dropdown to apply another style. To determine what styles appear in the list and in what order, open the Styles task pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom. You might also like the little floating dialog you get by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Wow! Thanks, Jay. Yes, that's what I need. Now, why isn't that there by default? Oh well. Both your suggestions are brilliant. |
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Jay,
Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with "Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style? On Apr 24, 8:19 am, Jay Freedman wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0700, PeterBBailey wrote: In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's frustrating to not be able to see the styles used. Thanks. There are several solutions to this, but here's the one I think is the most elegant: The style dropdown that was on the Formatting toolbar in earlier versions of Word is still available and can be put on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT). Right-click the QAT and choose Customize. In the dialog, set the "Choose commands from" box to "Commands not in the Ribbon". Select the command that says "Style" and has a dropdown icon on the right side. Click the Add button and click OK. The toolbar will always show the style at the current insertion point, and you can use the dropdown to apply another style. To determine what styles appear in the list and in what order, open the Styles task pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom. You might also like the little floating dialog you get by pressing Ctrl+Shift+S. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Maxey" wrote in message oups.com... Jay, Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with "Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style? |
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Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too? -- Jay On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton" wrote: I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Maxey" wrote in message roups.com... Jay, Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with "Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this... If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce it here. Maybe I should file a report, too? On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton" wrote: I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-) "Greg Maxey" wrote in message groups.com... Jay, Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with "Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style? |
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Beth,
Yes that is what I was referring to. The Google Groups here on my PC wasn't working for two days. That is why I didn't see any or repond to replies. Thanks. Greg On Apr 24, 4:13 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote: I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ:http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine:http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site:http://mvps.org/ "Greg Maxey" wrote in message oups.com... Jay, Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with "Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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