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nomal style show up in Document Map
I have a large document, about 7 MB in .docx. It was converted from .doc.
For some reason, about 9 thound lines that are of Style Normal show up in Document Map. These lines are not adjacent in the document. If I select them one by one and set the style to Normal or Clear All it disappears from Docuement Map and stays so after saving and reopen. Problem: If I select all 9 thousand instances by using a drop down list in the Styles list and then select Clear All or Normal, they disappear from the Document Map but only to reappear in Document Map after saving and re-open. Same problem when I use Clear Formatting for all 9 thousand instances by using the drop down list in the Styles list. Any help will be appreciated. |
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Well, that's how the Document Map works--there is an explanation and
more tips for prevention and fix he http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/DocumentMap.htm TW wrote: I have a large document, about 7 MB in .docx. It was converted from .doc. For some reason, about 9 thound lines that are of Style Normal show up in Document Map. These lines are not adjacent in the document. If I select them one by one and set the style to Normal or Clear All it disappears from Docuement Map and stays so after saving and reopen. Problem: If I select all 9 thousand instances by using a drop down list in the Styles list and then select Clear All or Normal, they disappear from the Document Map but only to reappear in Document Map after saving and re-open. Same problem when I use Clear Formatting for all 9 thousand instances by using the drop down list in the Styles list. Any help will be appreciated. |
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Select all 9 thousand paragraphs formatted with the Normal style in the Styles task pane. Change the paragraph formatting setting for outline level to Body Text (Format, Paragraph, Indents and Spacing tab, Outline Level drop-down list box). But don't stop there or as you've noted your problem will reappear when you save the document and reopen it. Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. The problem typically arises when you start a document with a paragraph formatted with the default Normal style such as "Title" or in fact almost anything short of a sentence. It doesn't matter what your AutoFormat As You Type settings are. When you first display the document map, Word assumes you're going to use Heading styles or at least directly apply outline levels 1, 2, etc. Since you haven't done either, Word applies outline level 1 to that first short paragraph by direct paragraph formatting (it does not change the definition of the Normal style). The next paragraph you create by pressing ENTER with the insertion point within that short paragraph will also be directly formatted with outline level 1 and so on. Paragraphs created before you first open the document map that are formatted with the Normal style with still carry the default Body Text outline level. "TW" wrote: I have a large document, about 7 MB in .docx. It was converted from .doc. For some reason, about 9 thound lines that are of Style Normal show up in Document Map. These lines are not adjacent in the document. If I select them one by one and set the style to Normal or Clear All it disappears from Docuement Map and stays so after saving and reopen. Problem: If I select all 9 thousand instances by using a drop down list in the Styles list and then select Clear All or Normal, they disappear from the Document Map but only to reappear in Document Map after saving and re-open. Same problem when I use Clear Formatting for all 9 thousand instances by using the drop down list in the Styles list. Any help will be appreciated. |
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Thank you Aeneas.
Apparently "Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document." is the key for my fix. I would never have thought of that because I had Heading 1 already. But apparently creating a new Heading 1 does the trick. It's fixed. Thanks again. "Aeneas" wrote: Select all 9 thousand paragraphs formatted with the Normal style in the Styles task pane. Change the paragraph formatting setting for outline level to Body Text (Format, Paragraph, Indents and Spacing tab, Outline Level drop-down list box). But don't stop there or as you've noted your problem will reappear when you save the document and reopen it. Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. The problem typically arises when you start a document with a paragraph formatted with the default Normal style such as "Title" or in fact almost anything short of a sentence. It doesn't matter what your AutoFormat As You Type settings are. When you first display the document map, Word assumes you're going to use Heading styles or at least directly apply outline levels 1, 2, etc. Since you haven't done either, Word applies outline level 1 to that first short paragraph by direct paragraph formatting (it does not change the definition of the Normal style). The next paragraph you create by pressing ENTER with the insertion point within that short paragraph will also be directly formatted with outline level 1 and so on. Paragraphs created before you first open the document map that are formatted with the Normal style with still carry the default Body Text outline level. "TW" wrote: I have a large document, about 7 MB in .docx. It was converted from .doc. For some reason, about 9 thound lines that are of Style Normal show up in Document Map. These lines are not adjacent in the document. If I select them one by one and set the style to Normal or Clear All it disappears from Docuement Map and stays so after saving and reopen. Problem: If I select all 9 thousand instances by using a drop down list in the Styles list and then select Clear All or Normal, they disappear from the Document Map but only to reappear in Document Map after saving and re-open. Same problem when I use Clear Formatting for all 9 thousand instances by using the drop down list in the Styles list. Any help will be appreciated. |
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You're welcome. The Document Map is a powerful navigation feature; I'm glad
you'll be able to continue to use it. You might also find Outline View extremely helpful for organizing and reorganizing long documents. "TW" wrote: Thank you Aeneas. Apparently "Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document." is the key for my fix. I would never have thought of that because I had Heading 1 already. But apparently creating a new Heading 1 does the trick. It's fixed. Thanks again. "Aeneas" wrote: Select all 9 thousand paragraphs formatted with the Normal style in the Styles task pane. Change the paragraph formatting setting for outline level to Body Text (Format, Paragraph, Indents and Spacing tab, Outline Level drop-down list box). But don't stop there or as you've noted your problem will reappear when you save the document and reopen it. Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. The problem typically arises when you start a document with a paragraph formatted with the default Normal style such as "Title" or in fact almost anything short of a sentence. It doesn't matter what your AutoFormat As You Type settings are. When you first display the document map, Word assumes you're going to use Heading styles or at least directly apply outline levels 1, 2, etc. Since you haven't done either, Word applies outline level 1 to that first short paragraph by direct paragraph formatting (it does not change the definition of the Normal style). The next paragraph you create by pressing ENTER with the insertion point within that short paragraph will also be directly formatted with outline level 1 and so on. Paragraphs created before you first open the document map that are formatted with the Normal style with still carry the default Body Text outline level. "TW" wrote: I have a large document, about 7 MB in .docx. It was converted from .doc. For some reason, about 9 thound lines that are of Style Normal show up in Document Map. These lines are not adjacent in the document. If I select them one by one and set the style to Normal or Clear All it disappears from Docuement Map and stays so after saving and reopen. Problem: If I select all 9 thousand instances by using a drop down list in the Styles list and then select Clear All or Normal, they disappear from the Document Map but only to reappear in Document Map after saving and re-open. Same problem when I use Clear Formatting for all 9 thousand instances by using the drop down list in the Styles list. Any help will be appreciated. |
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Hi Aeneas,
Aeneas wrote: Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. Is this another way to prevent the Doc Map problem from re-occurring? I tested this previously, and it didn't work, but Word does seem to be respecting existing heading styles in more recent versions. Is that your experience? Daiya |
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Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to
be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message ... Hi Aeneas, Aeneas wrote: Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. Is this another way to prevent the Doc Map problem from re-occurring? I tested this previously, and it didn't work, but Word does seem to be respecting existing heading styles in more recent versions. Is that your experience? Daiya |
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Yeah, I couldn't tell either, he talked about carrying a format with
enter--but he recommended applying H1 or H2 as a prevention fix, and his analysis said the Doc Map applies outline levels *if* it can't find any. That was certainly not the case when I tested a while back, but it might be now. Stefan Blom wrote: Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. |
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It has prevented the problem from occurring in Word 2007 documents 100% of
the time when I format the first paragraph with a built-in heading style before I open the Document Map for the first time. The suggestions I made re selecting all instances of paragraphs formatted with the Normal style and changing the Outline Level to Body Text, formatting a paragraph (preferably the 1st with a built-in Heading style), etc. has also worked without exception on older documents that I've converted to the .docx file format. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Hi Aeneas, Aeneas wrote: Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. Is this another way to prevent the Doc Map problem from re-occurring? I tested this previously, and it didn't work, but Word does seem to be respecting existing heading styles in more recent versions. Is that your experience? Daiya |
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Hi Daiya:
You sound a bit incredulous -- so was I after years of using the Document Map with no problems but continually reading comments that it was to be avoided. Open a new document. Type "One" or any 2 or 3 word phrase Press ENTER type fill in text (say, =rand(2,2)) and press ENTER (whether the Document Map is displayed or not at this point is irrelevant) Save the document Open it Display Document Map Note that "One" is included in the Document Map and has outline level 1 applied. To "propagate" the problem: Move the IP right before the paragraph mark in the 1st paragraph ("One") Press ENTER Type anything (the length is irrelevant at this point) Note the appearance of each paragraph in which you have just entered text in the Document Map I tried it in Word 2003 and got the same results. Please let me know if your experience is different Thanks for all your help through the years, especially re long docs, which I work with every day. Aeneas "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Yeah, I couldn't tell either, he talked about carrying a format with enter--but he recommended applying H1 or H2 as a prevention fix, and his analysis said the Doc Map applies outline levels *if* it can't find any. That was certainly not the case when I tested a while back, but it might be now. Stefan Blom wrote: Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. |
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I forgot to mention that the propagation occurs because Word automatically
applied direct paragraph formatting (outline level 1) to the paragraph in question as you can see if you open the Reveal Formatting task pane. The definition of the Normal style is unaffected. No AutoFormat as you type setting seems to have any effect. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Yeah, I couldn't tell either, he talked about carrying a format with enter--but he recommended applying H1 or H2 as a prevention fix, and his analysis said the Doc Map applies outline levels *if* it can't find any. That was certainly not the case when I tested a while back, but it might be now. Stefan Blom wrote: Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. |
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This is actually what I would expect, especially if you don't have "Define
styles based on your formatting" and automatic headings disabled in AutoFormat As You Type. If you apply Heading 1 style explicitly, then pressing Enter at the end of the H1 paragraph will (by default) give you a paragraph in Normal style. Pressing Enter at the beginning of H1 will give you another H1. All of this is by design. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Aeneas" wrote in message ... Hi Daiya: You sound a bit incredulous -- so was I after years of using the Document Map with no problems but continually reading comments that it was to be avoided. Open a new document. Type "One" or any 2 or 3 word phrase Press ENTER type fill in text (say, =rand(2,2)) and press ENTER (whether the Document Map is displayed or not at this point is irrelevant) Save the document Open it Display Document Map Note that "One" is included in the Document Map and has outline level 1 applied. To "propagate" the problem: Move the IP right before the paragraph mark in the 1st paragraph ("One") Press ENTER Type anything (the length is irrelevant at this point) Note the appearance of each paragraph in which you have just entered text in the Document Map I tried it in Word 2003 and got the same results. Please let me know if your experience is different Thanks for all your help through the years, especially re long docs, which I work with every day. Aeneas "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Yeah, I couldn't tell either, he talked about carrying a format with enter--but he recommended applying H1 or H2 as a prevention fix, and his analysis said the Doc Map applies outline levels *if* it can't find any. That was certainly not the case when I tested a while back, but it might be now. Stefan Blom wrote: Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. |
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As I stated earlier, the behavior I have recounted happens even when the two AutoFormat As You Type options you cited have been cleared. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is actually what I would expect, especially if you don't have "Define styles based on your formatting" and automatic headings disabled in AutoFormat As You Type. If you apply Heading 1 style explicitly, then pressing Enter at the end of the H1 paragraph will (by default) give you a paragraph in Normal style. Pressing Enter at the beginning of H1 will give you another H1. All of this is by design. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Aeneas" wrote in message ... Hi Daiya: You sound a bit incredulous -- so was I after years of using the Document Map with no problems but continually reading comments that it was to be avoided. Open a new document. Type "One" or any 2 or 3 word phrase Press ENTER type fill in text (say, =rand(2,2)) and press ENTER (whether the Document Map is displayed or not at this point is irrelevant) Save the document Open it Display Document Map Note that "One" is included in the Document Map and has outline level 1 applied. To "propagate" the problem: Move the IP right before the paragraph mark in the 1st paragraph ("One") Press ENTER Type anything (the length is irrelevant at this point) Note the appearance of each paragraph in which you have just entered text in the Document Map I tried it in Word 2003 and got the same results. Please let me know if your experience is different Thanks for all your help through the years, especially re long docs, which I work with every day. Aeneas "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Yeah, I couldn't tell either, he talked about carrying a format with enter--but he recommended applying H1 or H2 as a prevention fix, and his analysis said the Doc Map applies outline levels *if* it can't find any. That was certainly not the case when I tested a while back, but it might be now. Stefan Blom wrote: Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. |
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Sorry, yes. *The propagation* is not at all the part that surprised me.
This is exactly what I would expect to happen, also. That's not autoformatting but just how Word works, I think. Aeneas wrote: Hi Daiya: You sound a bit incredulous -- so was I after years of using the Document Map with no problems but continually reading comments that it was to be avoided. Open a new document. Type "One" or any 2 or 3 word phrase Press ENTER type fill in text (say, =rand(2,2)) and press ENTER (whether the Document Map is displayed or not at this point is irrelevant) Save the document Open it Display Document Map Note that "One" is included in the Document Map and has outline level 1 applied. To "propagate" the problem: Move the IP right before the paragraph mark in the 1st paragraph ("One") Press ENTER Type anything (the length is irrelevant at this point) Note the appearance of each paragraph in which you have just entered text in the Document Map I tried it in Word 2003 and got the same results. Please let me know if your experience is different Thanks for all your help through the years, especially re long docs, which I work with every day. Aeneas "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Yeah, I couldn't tell either, he talked about carrying a format with enter--but he recommended applying H1 or H2 as a prevention fix, and his analysis said the Doc Map applies outline levels *if* it can't find any. That was certainly not the case when I tested a while back, but it might be now. Stefan Blom wrote: Using styles will certainly prevent the direct outline level formatting to be transferred to new paragraphs as you press Enter (which will happen with direct formatting). I can't tell for certain (for obvious reasons), but I think that's what Aeneas was referring to. |
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This prevention is what surprised me. The Doc Map used to add outline
levels even if Heading levels were already in use throughout the document, and I can't imagine that I didn't test a doc with the first paragraph using a Heading (possible but doubtful). So this is a new way to prevent the problem, to format the first paragraph, and it sounds like Word has gotten smarter. Thanks for the tips! (Sorry, missed this thread for a while) Aeneas wrote: It has prevented the problem from occurring in Word 2007 documents 100% of the time when I format the first paragraph with a built-in heading style before I open the Document Map for the first time. The suggestions I made re selecting all instances of paragraphs formatted with the Normal style and changing the Outline Level to Body Text, formatting a paragraph (preferably the 1st with a built-in Heading style), etc. has also worked without exception on older documents that I've converted to the .docx file format. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Hi Aeneas, Aeneas wrote: Apply a built-in heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to a heading somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning. Then save the document. When you reopen the document, your problem should be gone. Is this another way to prevent the Doc Map problem from re-occurring? I tested this previously, and it didn't work, but Word does seem to be respecting existing heading styles in more recent versions. Is that your experience? Daiya |
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