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Outline View loses character formatting
When viewing a document in Outline view, it has always allowed and displayed
character formatting such as bold, italics, font, color, etc. Very recently, it stopped doing that and shows all text as basically unformatted (just indented). The character formatting is remembered, and will show up when I switch to Normal View, but all goes away when I switch back to Outline view. The problem shows up on Word 11.8134.8132 SP2. I have another system running Word 11.8134.8107 SP2 that still displays character formatting in Outline View like it always has (for at least the last 5 years and probably 10). I cannot find any option setting that might affect it, and did not make any option changes intentionally. Has Microsoft made a change between ..8107 and ...8132 that neutered the Outline view? I cannot find any reference to a change like that on the Microsoft web site or Google. This is a big deal to me since I keep most of my notes and reference material in Outline format and find it is a tremendous tool for composing and creative thinking, and I need to highlight and emphasize things a lot. -- Gettin It Together |
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Outline View loses character formatting
On the Outline toolbar make sure Show Formatting is selected. If that isn't
it, go to Tools/Options/View and make sure Draft Font isn't selected. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor 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/ "GettinItTogether" wrote in message news When viewing a document in Outline view, it has always allowed and displayed character formatting such as bold, italics, font, color, etc. Very recently, it stopped doing that and shows all text as basically unformatted (just indented). The character formatting is remembered, and will show up when I switch to Normal View, but all goes away when I switch back to Outline view. The problem shows up on Word 11.8134.8132 SP2. I have another system running Word 11.8134.8107 SP2 that still displays character formatting in Outline View like it always has (for at least the last 5 years and probably 10). I cannot find any option setting that might affect it, and did not make any option changes intentionally. Has Microsoft made a change between ..8107 and ..8132 that neutered the Outline view? I cannot find any reference to a change like that on the Microsoft web site or Google. This is a big deal to me since I keep most of my notes and reference material in Outline format and find it is a tremendous tool for composing and creative thinking, and I need to highlight and emphasize things a lot. -- Gettin It Together |
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