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Styles in Word 2003
Hi All,
I am attempting to create a template with a certain set of styles for a book (900+ pages) and I want to use the protect document feature to disallow the introduction of unintentional styles. Am I missing something or do I really have to create a style for every tiny thing? For example, I have one for Character Bold, Character Italic, Character Bold Italic, Character Underline, Character Bold Underline, Character Italic Underline, Character Bold Italic Underline ... and on and on and on.... Is there a way to stack these styles so I only need one Bold style and one Italic style and one underline style I can apply in any combination? The same question goes for paragraph styling. If I bold a paragraph and then try to apply an indent - I lose one or the other or I have to create a bold 1st indent, bold 2nd indent, and on and on .... I cannot find any documentation which addresses this. (and I cannot use my apostrophe key without ending up with a quick search ...?) Thanks, P Ratcliff |
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Hi All, I am attempting to create a template with a certain set of styles for a book (900+ pages) and I want to use the protect document feature to disallow the introduction of unintentional styles. Am I missing something or do I really have to create a style for every tiny thing? For example, I have one for Character Bold, Character Italic, Character Bold Italic, Character Underline, Character Bold Underline, Character Italic Underline, Character Bold Italic Underline ... and on and on and on.... Is there a way to stack these styles so I only need one Bold style and one Italic style and one underline style I can apply in any combination? The same question goes for paragraph styling. If I bold a paragraph and then try to apply an indent - I lose one or the other or I have to create a bold 1st indent, bold 2nd indent, and on and on .... I cannot find any documentation which addresses this. (and I cannot use my apostrophe key without ending up with a quick search ...?) Thanks, P Ratcliff I'm afraid that's the way it is. In a document where formatting isn't restricted, any individual character has exactly one paragraph style, at most one character style, and any combination of direct (non-style) formatting. When you restrict formatting to a selection of allowed styles, the first effect is to forbid any direct formatting. That means a character can have one paragraph style and at most one character style, both chosen from the allowed list. Any more than that is impossible. The result is that in order to allow all those combinations, you need lots of customized styles. Consider it a strong encouragement to keep your formatting simple. For example, there's rarely a need in a book for any underlining; traditionally it was a typewriter's substitute for italic type. Also learn to mentally separate character formatting from paragraph formatting. For your example, apply the first indent paragraph style and the bold character style. Changing the paragraph style, for instance to second indent, won't remove the character 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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