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Body text and Normal style
What is the difference between body text and Normal style? I can see that
Normal is actually a style but Body text is both a style and a level in outlining view. Why would you use any of the body styles instead of normal style? Thanks Debbie |
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Body text and Normal style
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm
-- 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. "Phippsy" wrote in message ... What is the difference between body text and Normal style? I can see that Normal is actually a style but Body text is both a style and a level in outlining view. Why would you use any of the body styles instead of normal style? Thanks Debbie |
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Thank you so much. It is as I thought but so much better explained.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm -- 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. "Phippsy" wrote in message ... What is the difference between body text and Normal style? I can see that Normal is actually a style but Body text is both a style and a level in outlining view. Why would you use any of the body styles instead of normal style? Thanks Debbie |
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Glad I could help.
-- 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. "Phippsy" wrote in message ... Thank you so much. It is as I thought but so much better explained. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...BodyStyles.htm -- 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. "Phippsy" wrote in message ... What is the difference between body text and Normal style? I can see that Normal is actually a style but Body text is both a style and a level in outlining view. Why would you use any of the body styles instead of normal style? Thanks Debbie |
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Body text and Normal style
I'm a convert!
We have a large number of docs to convert from the old Normal (Normal + After 6pt) (yes, I know!) to the new templates, so I'm relieved to find out that pasting into the new format will adopt the styles of the new formats with the same name. As we will have to convert Normal to Body Text, can you suggest ways to convert the many various styles: Normal + Indent, bulleted, numbered, etc - when I say "turn this stuff into Body Text", it drops a lot of the additional formatting. |
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Body text and Normal style
An entry such as Normal + Indent (in the Styles pane) is not a style but a
style + direct formatting. Applying a style will clear direct paragraph formatting; there isn't anything you can do about that. What you can do is apply a style with formatting that (more or less) matches the direct formatting previously applied to text. I'd say that this requires a lot of manual work, determining which style to apply where. To a certain extent you may be able to automate it by using Find & Replace to search for formatting. ~~~ Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Bod" wrote in message ... I'm a convert! We have a large number of docs to convert from the old Normal (Normal + After 6pt) (yes, I know!) to the new templates, so I'm relieved to find out that pasting into the new format will adopt the styles of the new formats with the same name. As we will have to convert Normal to Body Text, can you suggest ways to convert the many various styles: Normal + Indent, bulleted, numbered, etc - when I say "turn this stuff into Body Text", it drops a lot of the additional formatting. |
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