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Need help understanding styles
When I have the Styles and Formatting window active and set to Reveal
Formatting, when I place my cursor on different paragraphs, the S & F window says they have the same paragraph style, but the have different left and hanging indents (also different tab settings). How can this be? I thought every paragraph that had the same paragraph style would have the same indent and tab settings. Maybe I misunderstand how styles work. I want to get my document so that every paragraph that has the same style has the same indent and tab settings -- Greg in Atlanta |
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This is a result of the Keep track of formatting option (Tools - Options -
Edit). When you first apply a style to a paragraph, it is pristine. If you apply direct formatting (using Format - Paragraph or using the ruler, for example), however, you're introducing variant formatting to that paragraph (unless the style is set to Automatically Update, in which case, when you apply direct formatting, the style will automatically be changed, which will automatically reformat all other text that has that style applied). If you choose Tools - Options - Edit, and press F1, some of this is explained. The good thing about "keep track of formatting" is that it allows you to see if non-style formatting has been added to the current selection. If you see variant formatting applied and do want the style to be redefined, you can right-click the style in the Styles and Formatting list and choose Update to Match Selection, which will redefine the style that's in effect in that document. If Prompt to update style (also in Tools Options Edit) is enabled, if you attempt to reapply the same style to a selection that contains variant formatting, you're offered a choice of whether to reapply the style or to redefine the style based on the selection. For more understanding styles, you might take a look he http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Formatting.htm ....and look around. There are also a number of books (which you can buy or check out of your local library) that have extensive discussions of how Word's styles work. Hope this helps some... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Greg In Atl" wrote in message ... When I have the Styles and Formatting window active and set to Reveal Formatting, when I place my cursor on different paragraphs, the S & F window says they have the same paragraph style, but the have different left and hanging indents (also different tab settings). How can this be? I thought every paragraph that had the same paragraph style would have the same indent and tab settings. Maybe I misunderstand how styles work. I want to get my document so that every paragraph that has the same style has the same indent and tab settings -- Greg in Atlanta |
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Thanks for the info.
One more thing maybe you can answer: I noticed that when I highlight a paragraph and then click new style on the styles and formatting pane, it creates the new style but does not change the text that it was created from to that style. Is there a way to do this? I have to find the new style and apply it to the text it was just created from. -- Greg in Atlanta "Greg In Atl" wrote: When I have the Styles and Formatting window active and set to Reveal Formatting, when I place my cursor on different paragraphs, the S & F window says they have the same paragraph style, but the have different left and hanging indents (also different tab settings). How can this be? I thought every paragraph that had the same paragraph style would have the same indent and tab settings. Maybe I misunderstand how styles work. I want to get my document so that every paragraph that has the same style has the same indent and tab settings -- Greg in Atlanta |
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
...and look around. There are also a number of books (which you can buy or check out of your local library) that have extensive discussions of how Word's styles work. http://www.amazon.com/Pick-right-Wor...2ZS0J4OG5QNUR/ Congrats! :-) Klaus |
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Hi Greg,
You should be able to just type the new name into the Styles control (combo box on the Formatting toolbar). In Word 2007, it's not in the user interface by default, but it makes a lot of sense to add the control to the QAT. This "styles by example" mechanism works only for paragraph styles, though :-( Regards, Klaus "Greg In Atl" wrote: Thanks for the info. One more thing maybe you can answer: I noticed that when I highlight a paragraph and then click new style on the styles and formatting pane, it creates the new style but does not change the text that it was created from to that style. Is there a way to do this? I have to find the new style and apply it to the text it was just created from. -- Greg in Atlanta "Greg In Atl" wrote: When I have the Styles and Formatting window active and set to Reveal Formatting, when I place my cursor on different paragraphs, the S & F window says they have the same paragraph style, but the have different left and hanging indents (also different tab settings). How can this be? I thought every paragraph that had the same paragraph style would have the same indent and tab settings. Maybe I misunderstand how styles work. I want to get my document so that every paragraph that has the same style has the same indent and tab settings -- Greg in Atlanta |
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