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Avoid New Styles being added by Word
Hi there,
I finally decided to take the bull by the horns (Word is the bull). I created a template in Word 2007 following the great MVP document... http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm However, even if my document is pure with 100% defined styles, when I edit NEW styles show up. For example, when I have a new paragraph with the "Normal" style and press the backspace (to get rid of the paragraph) the paragraph changes from Normal style (which is indented by 0.5 inches) to a style called "Left: 0``". Also, as suggested in another thread, I avoid using page breaks as much as possible. But when I do, the paragraph with the page break has a style of "Left 0'': Befo 0 pt". I imagine there are other combinations that cause the document to have "impure" styles. My question is, what tricks are there to avoid or mitigate this unwanted behavior? Thanks for your help! Jean-Marc |
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These are not really styles, just "formatting." I'm not sure where the
setting is in Word 2007 (somewhere in the morass of options accessed by Office Button | Word Options, presumably), but in Word 2003, you clear the text box for "Keep track of formatting" on the Edit tab of Tools | Options to stop Word from displaying these pseudo-styles. -- 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. "Boca" wrote in message ... Hi there, I finally decided to take the bull by the horns (Word is the bull). I created a template in Word 2007 following the great MVP document... http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm However, even if my document is pure with 100% defined styles, when I edit NEW styles show up. For example, when I have a new paragraph with the "Normal" style and press the backspace (to get rid of the paragraph) the paragraph changes from Normal style (which is indented by 0.5 inches) to a style called "Left: 0``". Also, as suggested in another thread, I avoid using page breaks as much as possible. But when I do, the paragraph with the page break has a style of "Left 0'': Befo 0 pt". I imagine there are other combinations that cause the document to have "impure" styles. My question is, what tricks are there to avoid or mitigate this unwanted behavior? Thanks for your help! Jean-Marc |
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Dear Suzanne,
thanks for your reply. De-selecting the "Keep track of formatting" does not help because the Styles Window now shows all possible styles instead of the configured "In Use" styles. This is not good because displaying the styles in use is actually the troubleshooting tool I use to ensure only the styles I created are being used. I still do not find a good solution. Regarding the break issue one forum thread suggests making a special style with a "break before". So, I made the "Normal-with-Break-Before" style. But it looked a little awkward because many times the next content is a "Heading-2", a "Heading 3", a table or an image. I prefer not writing an additional style for each style I may have. This thread is... http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...=en-us&m=1&p=1 I also followed your suggestions on the same thread to Another (and better) solution is to avoid manual page breaks by using a combination of "Keep with next" and "Keep lines together" to force the heading and its following text onto the next page naturally. which helped (but only mitigated) the issue. Then, you suggested on a different thread to go to every paragraph on the next page and add to the paragraph formatting "Add a break before" but this seems like a lot of work. This thread is... http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...=en-us&m=1&p=1 It seems that Microsoft did not fix this issue from Word 2003 to 2007. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Jean-Marc |
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Hello Jean-Marc
Boca wrote: Regarding the break issue one forum thread suggests making a special style with a "break before". So, I made the "Normal-with-Break-Before" style. But it looked a little awkward because many times the next content is a "Heading-2", a "Heading 3", a table or an image. I prefer not writing an additional style for each style I may have. This thread is... you either make the "Page Break Before" property of the style itself, so that _each_ Heading 1 (or H2) starts at a new page. Or you want to use this property sparingly only at selected places in the document. Then I would not make it part of the style definition at all (and you certainly do _not_ want to have two styles for your level 2 headings, one w/ and the other w/o the property). IOW, you force the property as direct formatting to those heading paragraphs you choose. That's something you want to do with the final pagination work, not before. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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