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Heading styles based on upper-level heading?
I read at a Word MVP site, the following in an article on creating a
template (the link here is http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm ; you have to scroll down and click on the "Styles" link to get to the page that has the quotation): Using Format/Style you customise each of the Heading styles to the formatting you want. Remember to check the “Add to Template” box for each style, otherwise Word will not write your changes back to the template. This does not matter if you have the template open as a document as you do now, but it is critical later when you are updating the template while working on a document that is attached to it. Go through the Heading styles Heading 2 to heading 9 and base each lower number on the one above it in the hierarchy. Base Heading 1 itself on “No style”. This creates a break in the inheritance list that isolates the Heading styles as a group. So the author is saying that one should NOT base heading styles on the normal style, then. I'm not sure that I understand why--"isolates the Heading styles as a group" seems to be the reason, although I'm not sure of the benefit of that. Can someone explain this to me? Also, given that I've been having numerous problems over the past several months with modified heading styles losing their modifications, would this help? I don't think I have ever changed the "based on" option when I have changed my heading styles. |
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Heading styles based on upper-level heading?
Quoting from
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sCascade.html: "It's a good idea to set up your heading styles so that Heading 2 is based on Heading 1, Heading 3 is based on Heading 2, and so on. This allows you to make radical changes to your document very easily. If you're going to do this, you need to base Heading 1 on "No Style" because Word has 9 levels of Headings, and only accepts 9 generations of styles. I actually like this "feature", because it completely separates the formatting of the headings and the body text. So I can make a change to all the headings easily without affecting any body text, and vice versa." It's well worth reading the rest of that article. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:34:25 -0800 (PST), PRR wrote: I read at a Word MVP site, the following in an article on creating a template (the link here is http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm ; you have to scroll down and click on the "Styles" link to get to the page that has the quotation): Using Format/Style you customise each of the Heading styles to the formatting you want. Remember to check the “Add to Template” box for each style, otherwise Word will not write your changes back to the template. This does not matter if you have the template open as a document as you do now, but it is critical later when you are updating the template while working on a document that is attached to it. Go through the Heading styles Heading 2 to heading 9 and base each lower number on the one above it in the hierarchy. Base Heading 1 itself on “No style”. This creates a break in the inheritance list that isolates the Heading styles as a group. So the author is saying that one should NOT base heading styles on the normal style, then. I'm not sure that I understand why--"isolates the Heading styles as a group" seems to be the reason, although I'm not sure of the benefit of that. Can someone explain this to me? Also, given that I've been having numerous problems over the past several months with modified heading styles losing their modifications, would this help? I don't think I have ever changed the "based on" option when I have changed my heading styles. |
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Heading styles based on upper-level heading?
Quoting from http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sCascade.html: "It's a good idea to set up your heading styles so that Heading 2 is based on Heading 1, Heading 3 is based on Heading 2, and so on. This allows you to make radical changes to your document very easily. If you're going to do this, you need to base Heading 1 on "No Style" because Word has 9 levels of Headings, and only accepts 9 generations of styles. I actually like this "feature", because it completely separates the formatting of the headings and the body text. So I can make a change to all the headings easily without affecting any body text, and vice versa." It's well worth reading the rest of that article. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:34:25 -0800 (PST), PRR wrote: I read at a Word MVP site, the following in an article on creating a template (the link here is http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm ; you have to scroll down and click on the "Styles" link to get to the page that has the quotation): Using Format/Style you customise each of the Heading styles to the formatting you want. Remember to check the “Add to Template” box for each style, otherwise Word will not write your changes back to the template. This does not matter if you have the template open as a document as you do now, but it is critical later when you are updating the template while working on a document that is attached to it. Go through the Heading styles Heading 2 to heading 9 and base each lower number on the one above it in the hierarchy. Base Heading 1 itself on “No style”. This creates a break in the inheritance list that isolates the Heading styles as a group. So the author is saying that one should NOT base heading styles on the normal style, then. I'm not sure that I understand why--"isolates the Heading styles as a group" seems to be the reason, although I'm not sure of the benefit of that. Can someone explain this to me? Also, given that I've been having numerous problems over the past several months with modified heading styles losing their modifications, would this help? I don't think I have ever changed the "based on" option when I have changed my heading styles. |
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