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Changing a Style
Hi all I am using Word 2007. For a particular set of documents on which I am working I like the look of the Word 2003 style but I want to make some changes. First I want to change the font to Arial 12 for the text body. Second, I want all paragraphs to have a first line indent of about 1.2cm (or1/2 inch). This is the most important of the changes and I would be happy if I can achieve this. I have looked at several articles about changing styles but end up confused. What I want to be able to do is have these modifications included as a new style which I can then apply to other existing as well as new documents in the same way as the other styles can be applied. The third change I would like is with the footnotes. In the Word 2003 style there is only one space between the number and the first word of the footnote text. I would like two spaces. I would also like the footnote text to be Arial 10. Can anyone help please? Thanks in advance Robert. -- RobertJohn |
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Format a paragraph as you would like it to appear -- with the desired left
indent, point size, font, etc. Once it appears as desired, you can create a new style based on it, in the following way: In the Home tab, click the styles launcher to display the Styles pane -- the launcher is a small diagonal arrow pointing southeast in the lower right corner of the Styles chunk. (The keyboard shortcut for this is Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S). Near the bottom of the Styles pane, click the New Style button--it's the leftmost of the 3 buttons at the bottom. In the Create New Style fro Formatting dialog, type the name for the style you're creating. Near the bottom of the dialog, select "New documents based on this template" so that the style is copied to the current template, then click OK. The new style will now be available in new documents you create. To make the style available in existing documents, you would need to re-attach the template, with Automatically update document styles enabled. In the Developer tab, click Document template, click to select Automatically update document styles, then click OK. Once you've applied the style in a given document, you might want to remove the check next to Automatically update... to avoid making unexpected changes to the document in the future (or leave it... but recognize that template level style changes would automatically be applied to that document each time it's opened in the future). I don't believe there is a way to automatically accomplish your footnote wish. You might have to get into the habit of pressing the space bar each time you begin to write a footnote. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "RobertJohn" wrote in message ... Hi all I am using Word 2007. For a particular set of documents on which I am working I like the look of the Word 2003 style but I want to make some changes. First I want to change the font to Arial 12 for the text body. Second, I want all paragraphs to have a first line indent of about 1.2cm (or1/2 inch). This is the most important of the changes and I would be happy if I can achieve this. I have looked at several articles about changing styles but end up confused. What I want to be able to do is have these modifications included as a new style which I can then apply to other existing as well as new documents in the same way as the other styles can be applied. The third change I would like is with the footnotes. In the Word 2003 style there is only one space between the number and the first word of the footnote text. I would like two spaces. I would also like the footnote text to be Arial 10. Can anyone help please? Thanks in advance Robert. -- RobertJohn |
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Along with Herbs instructions on creating a new style, to modify an existing
style make your desired formatting changes, right-click the style, and then click "Update style name to match selection". You can modify the Footnote style using the same instructions. However, the Footnote Text style is not displayed by default. To view the Footnote Text style, on the Styles task pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click Options at the bottom. Under "Select Styles to Show", select "All Styles". You may also want to sort the list alphabetically as well. Also, unlike previous versions Word 2007 now has the ability to "package" styles so they can easily be used in other documents. This new feature is called a Quick Style Set. What you want to do is make your style changes and then make sure each style you want to include in the Style Set also appears in the Quick Style gallery on the Home tab. To add a style as a Quick Style, right-click the style in the styles pane and then click "Add to Quick Style Gallery" (if you see a "Remove" command then it's already added). To save the modified Quick Styles as a new Style Set, on the Home tab, in the Styles group, click Change Styles, point to Style Set, and then click "Save as Quick Style Set". After it's been saved in your QuickStyles folder it should now appear in the list of Style Sets under Change Styles and can be used in any document. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "RobertJohn" wrote in message ... Hi all I am using Word 2007. For a particular set of documents on which I am working I like the look of the Word 2003 style but I want to make some changes. First I want to change the font to Arial 12 for the text body. Second, I want all paragraphs to have a first line indent of about 1.2cm (or1/2 inch). This is the most important of the changes and I would be happy if I can achieve this. I have looked at several articles about changing styles but end up confused. What I want to be able to do is have these modifications included as a new style which I can then apply to other existing as well as new documents in the same way as the other styles can be applied. The third change I would like is with the footnotes. In the Word 2003 style there is only one space between the number and the first word of the footnote text. I would like two spaces. I would also like the footnote text to be Arial 10. Can anyone help please? Thanks in advance Robert. -- RobertJohn |
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Beth Melton;2708503 Wrote: Along with Herbs instructions on creating a new style, to modify an existing style make your desired formatting changes, right-click the style, and then click "Update style name to match selection". You can modify the Footnote style using the same instructions. However, the Footnote Text style is not displayed by default. To view the Footnote Text style, on the Styles task pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click Options at the bottom. Under "Select Styles to Show", select "All Styles". You may also want to sort the list alphabetically as well. Also, unlike previous versions Word 2007 now has the ability to "package" styles so they can easily be used in other documents. This new feature is called a Quick Style Set. What you want to do is make your style changes and then make sure each style you want to include in the Style Set also appears in the Quick Style gallery on the Home tab. To add a style as a Quick Style, right-click the style in the styles pane and then click "Add to Quick Style Gallery" (if you see a "Remove" command then it's already added). To save the modified Quick Styles as a new Style Set, on the Home tab, in the Styles group, click Change Styles, point to Style Set, and then click "Save as Quick Style Set". After it's been saved in your QuickStyles folder it should now appear in the list of Style Sets under Change Styles and can be used in any document. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "RobertJohn" wrote in message ...- Hi all I am using Word 2007. For a particular set of documents on which I am working I like the look of the Word 2003 style but I want to make some changes. First I want to change the font to Arial 12 for the text body. Second, I want all paragraphs to have a first line indent of about 1.2cm (or1/2 inch). This is the most important of the changes and I would be happy if I can achieve this. I have looked at several articles about changing styles but end up confused. What I want to be able to do is have these modifications included as a new style which I can then apply to other existing as well as new documents in the same way as the other styles can be applied. The third change I would like is with the footnotes. In the Word 2003 style there is only one space between the number and the first word of the footnote text. I would like two spaces. I would also like the footnote text to be Arial 10. Can anyone help please? Thanks in advance Robert. -- RobertJohn - Herb and Beth Many thanks Robert -- RobertJohn |
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You're welcome. Hopefully you're a little less frustrated now. ;-)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "RobertJohn" wrote in message ... Herb and Beth Many thanks Robert -- RobertJohn |
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One of the things that some of us like about Word is that there are a number
of different ways to accomplish any given task. This results in flexibility, but can also result in confusion and frustration about the "right" way to do something. The "right" way often turns out to be whatever works best for you--by definition. So, hopefully, you now have a "right" way to accomplish what you need. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "RobertJohn" wrote in message ... Beth Melton;2708503 Wrote: Along with Herbs instructions on creating a new style, to modify an existing Herb and Beth Many thanks Robert |
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