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Style task bar ... wysiwyg question
Is there a way to surpress (some or all of) the wysiwyg formatting in
the styles list? It's a cool feature at first, but after a while I know what each of my styles does and it looks tremendously busy. It would be nice if I could just get them all displayed normally. Or, even better: display the style, but have them display the same size and left-justified. Probably just wishful thinking... --cd |
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FWIW, the Styles list on the Formatting toolbar has a plain-text display;
you may find this preferable to the task pane. An unformatted styles list in the task pane has been requested for Word 12. -- 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. "Coder Droid" wrote in message ... Is there a way to surpress (some or all of) the wysiwyg formatting in the styles list? It's a cool feature at first, but after a while I know what each of my styles does and it looks tremendously busy. It would be nice if I could just get them all displayed normally. Or, even better: display the style, but have them display the same size and left-justified. Probably just wishful thinking... --cd |
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FWIW, the Styles list on the Formatting toolbar has a plain-text
display; I can't seem to find a setting for that: is there a toggle somewhere? --cd |
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Are you displaying your formatting toolbar? Have you checked the option to
show it on a different line than the standard toolbar? Have you turned off magic menus that change your menus depending on usage? -- 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. "Coder Droid" wrote in message ... FWIW, the Styles list on the Formatting toolbar has a plain-text display; I can't seem to find a setting for that: is there a toggle somewhere? --cd |
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There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed.
-- 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. "Coder Droid" wrote in message ... FWIW, the Styles list on the Formatting toolbar has a plain-text display; I can't seem to find a setting for that: is there a toggle somewhere? --cd |
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There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed.
We must be looking at different things. This is the style dropdown on the formatting toolbar, right? Mine is wysiwyg. It's as busy and hard to read as the task pane. Screenshot: http://www.image-bucket.com/images/c...oid/styles.png --cd |
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Hi Suzanne,
There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed. I agree there is no setting. But as to the type of display, I see WYSIWYG, same as the OP. Have you installed some kind of "tweak" software, such as WOPR, that may be doing this? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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FWIW, the ability to turn off WYSIWYG for the style display in both the Task
Pane and the Style list has been requested for the next release of Office. I'll very disappointed if this doesn't happen! -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Coder Droid" wrote in message ... : There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed. : : We must be looking at different things. This is the style dropdown on : the formatting toolbar, right? Mine is wysiwyg. It's as busy and hard to : read as the task pane. : : Screenshot: : : http://www.image-bucket.com/images/c...oid/styles.png : : --cd : : |
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To clarify, I'm talking about the Styles dropdown on the Formatting toolbar,
not the Styles and Formatting task pane. I believe there are some versions of Word (2000, which I skipped?) that have a WYSIWYG display for styles, but I don't see that in Word 2003. Aha! I started to mention this option earlier, having remembered it incorrectly, but it turns out that my first impulse was correct: on the Options tab of Tools | Customize, if you have the box for "List font names in their font" checked, you also get a WYSIWYG display of styles. Clear that check box, and you will get a plain-text list. -- 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. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message news:VA.0000a825.008ef2ba@speedy... Hi Suzanne, There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed. I agree there is no setting. But as to the type of display, I see WYSIWYG, same as the OP. Have you installed some kind of "tweak" software, such as WOPR, that may be doing this? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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To clarify, I'm talking about the Styles dropdown on the Formatting
toolbar, not the Styles and Formatting task pane. Me too... Aha! I started to mention this option earlier, having remembered it incorrectly, but it turns out that my first impulse was correct: on the Options tab of Tools | Customize, if you have the box for "List font names in their font" checked, you also get a WYSIWYG display of styles. Lemme try that. Give me half a minute. [jeopardy theme song plays] Bingo. That was it. So for the record, we can pretend this statement never happened: There is no setting. Plain text is the default and can't be changed. Thanks for the help. The plain text version is so much easier. Although, I do like the font list displayed in the font. Guess I can't have everything! --cd |
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