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styles and formating pane not showing selected styles
Word 2002
In some documents, including the one I'm working on now, the styles and formatting pane won't show which style is being used for the selected text. By that I mean, when I put my cursor on the text, the pane usually reveals which style is applied to that text. But at the moment the formatting of selected text simply says "char char char", even though I have selected the text and used Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-space many times to remove any character and paragraph formatting. I can apply styles no problem, but Word won't then show which has been applied - Why is it doing this? thanks -- MB. |
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styles and formating pane not showing selected styles
Hi Mike,
Word 2002 In some documents, including the one I'm working on now, the styles and formatting pane won't show which style is being used for the selected text. By that I mean, when I put my cursor on the text, the pane usually reveals which style is applied to that text. But at the moment the formatting of selected text simply says "char char char", even though I have selected the text and used Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-space many times to remove any character and paragraph formatting. I can apply styles no problem, but Word won't then show which has been applied - Why is it doing this? The "char" suffixes to style names indicate that a paragraph style was applied to a text selection that did not include a paragraph mark. Word takes this to mean that you want to have character formatting with the character attributes of that paragraph style. In the background, it creates a character style and links it with the paragraph style. Change the definition of one, and the definition of the other changes. The best way to avoid this is to make sure that *nothing* is selected when applying a paragraph style (to a single paragraph). Or that you've explicitly included a paragraph mark (¶) in the selection. Getting rid of the "char" styles can be tricky. You'll find a macro that may help in the Tips section of my website. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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