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how do I get character based styles to work in word 2007?
I use character based styles in Word - worked fine in Word 2002 but in 2007 I
keeps struggling to make them work consistently. Despite setting every aspect of fontstyle in the font options, the underlying style seems to affect the outcome. Sometimes clearing all formatting solves this, but at other times it doesn't. I like to have more than one style on the same line (which is why I use character based styles) but that is very hard to achieve using quick styles. What has happened with styles in 2007? -- Office 2007 |
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how do I get character based styles to work in word 2007?
I would start by getting rid of any variant formatting. Any non-style-based
direct formatting can confuse Word 2007's pecking order of which style gets "listened to." Select the whole paragraph and press Ctrl+Spacebar. This resets the character formatting to that of the underlying paragraph style. Next, apply the character style you want to a subset of that paragraph. Does that work for you? If not, I might begin to suspect document or template corruption. You might also want to try using Ctrl+Shift+S--the Apply Styles tool--to apply styles. I find that I get better control and better information that way (easier to distinguish character versus paragraph styles). There is also a Classic style tool that can be added to the Quick Access Toolbar, which gives you something resembling the formatting toolbar's Style tool we had in Word 2003 and earlier. (To get it, when customizing the QAT, set the list to Commands not in the ribbon, and look for a tool named Style. When you hover the mouse over it, it says "(StyleGalleryClassic)" in the command description.) Good luck! -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Author of the Word 2007 Bible Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "TrevorG" wrote in message ... I use character based styles in Word - worked fine in Word 2002 but in 2007 I keeps struggling to make them work consistently. Despite setting every aspect of fontstyle in the font options, the underlying style seems to affect the outcome. Sometimes clearing all formatting solves this, but at other times it doesn't. I like to have more than one style on the same line (which is why I use character based styles) but that is very hard to achieve using quick styles. What has happened with styles in 2007? -- Office 2007 |
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how do I get character based styles to work in word 2007?
Thanks for the response.
I have tried this extensively since, tried deleating normal.comx and recreated styles in a variety of ways, but I still find character based styles behave unpredictably. The major problem seems to revolve around italics. A style which has plain style will suddenly have italics and styles with italics will suddenly appear upright. I can only conclude that there are some bugs in Word 2007 handling of character based styles. Trevor -- Office Pro 2007 |
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