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Stefan Blom
 
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I have paragraphs here and there with
direct formatting, like tab settings or different space after. I
can't see having a whole different style for a one-time small change
like that, but when I go to change the style, the direct formatting

is
gone.


Some occurrences of direct formatting are of course "allowed" even in
documents that strictly use styles. However, if you find that you need
to use direct formatting to get a specific effect (formatting the
first paragraph after a heading would be one such case!), it is really
more appropriate to create a style for it.

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Stefan Blom


"Andy" wrote in message
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I recently decided to stop using the Body Text style. I

occasionally
share documents, and I want to make sure that when others paste

parts
of my doc, it looks as I intended. If they have a Body Text that
looks different than mine, it doesn't work out that way.

So I created a new style, BT, and in my normal.dot I replaced Body
Text with BT, and all the styles based on Body Text with styles

based
on BT (too bad I couldn't rename Body Text, but that would have been
too easy).

I have some old templates (form letters, etc) that still have Body
Text. It's not a big deal, but as I use them I'd like to replace

all
instances of Body Text with BT. I have paragraphs here and there

with
direct formatting, like tab settings or different space after. I
can't see having a whole different style for a one-time small change
like that, but when I go to change the style, the direct formatting

is
gone.

Now I know it's not do-able thru the interface. Maybe I'll ask over
in the VBA section as you suggest. It would be interesting. It

would
also probably be a case of spending an hour to save ten minutes.

But
what the heck, that's part of the fun.

Thanks,

Andy





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Some occurrences of direct formatting are of course "allowed" even in
documents that strictly use styles. However, if you find that you need
to use direct formatting to get a specific effect (formatting the
first paragraph after a heading would be one such case!), it is really
more appropriate to create a style for it.


I'm seeing that. It just seemed silly to have a separate style when the
only difference was a larger Space After.

So my new rule of thumb is to create a new style if I'm going to have
more than one occurrence of that set of formatting details.

Thanks,

Andy


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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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Good for you! That's my principle as well, but I don't always adhere to it!

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"Andy" wrote in message
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Some occurrences of direct formatting are of course "allowed" even in
documents that strictly use styles. However, if you find that you need
to use direct formatting to get a specific effect (formatting the
first paragraph after a heading would be one such case!), it is really
more appropriate to create a style for it.


I'm seeing that. It just seemed silly to have a separate style when the
only difference was a larger Space After.

So my new rule of thumb is to create a new style if I'm going to have
more than one occurrence of that set of formatting details.

Thanks,

Andy



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