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Why Do Styles Work This Way?
I am creating a simple Word document. Even though the document is
simple, I've found it very difficult to manage the styles. After a lot of effort, I've been able to get the document formatted the way I want, but I feel that I lack some critical understanding of styles which makes the difference between skillful use and frustration. Can someone help me with answers to these specific questions: 1) I've found that the easiest way to modify a style is to edit the format of the text, then to use "Update to Match Selection" in the Styles and Formatting Task Pane. However, "Update to Match Selection" is often disabled for no apparent reason. For instance, right now I want to change the font size for the "Normal" style from 12 point to 10 point. I can do it with "Modify", but not with "Update to Match Selection". Why? 2) I added a table of contents to my document. The table of contents uses the styles "Hyperlink" and "TOC 1". In the Styles and Formatting Task Pane, I've selected "Show Formatting in use", but neither "Hyperlink" nor "TOC 1" appears in the list. If "Show Formatting in use" doesn't mean "show formatting in use", what does it mean? -TC |
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Why Do Styles Work This Way?
"Formatting" in this instance may be contrasted with "styles." In "Styles
and Formatting," "formatting" refers to direct formatting added on top of a style; if you haven't done that, then you wouldn't see anything, and in any case you wouldn't see a style listed as "formatting." If you display "Styles in use," you may or may not see TOC 1 or Hyperlink (the display in the task pane tends to reflect MS's assumption that there are some styles you really don't need to know about, especially ones it applies automatically, such as TOC styles and the Hyperlink style). FWIW, the TOC style is the underlying paragraph style; Hyperlink is a character style that is added if you choose to have the entire TOC entry (instead of just the page number) hyperlinked. Although the Hyperlink style is defined as blue and underlined, this formatting is suppressed for TOCs and hyperlinked cross references (and cannot be made to appear); it appears only if you unlink the field (at which point, ironically, the hyperlinks aren't actually active any more). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... I am creating a simple Word document. Even though the document is simple, I've found it very difficult to manage the styles. After a lot of effort, I've been able to get the document formatted the way I want, but I feel that I lack some critical understanding of styles which makes the difference between skillful use and frustration. Can someone help me with answers to these specific questions: 1) I've found that the easiest way to modify a style is to edit the format of the text, then to use "Update to Match Selection" in the Styles and Formatting Task Pane. However, "Update to Match Selection" is often disabled for no apparent reason. For instance, right now I want to change the font size for the "Normal" style from 12 point to 10 point. I can do it with "Modify", but not with "Update to Match Selection". Why? 2) I added a table of contents to my document. The table of contents uses the styles "Hyperlink" and "TOC 1". In the Styles and Formatting Task Pane, I've selected "Show Formatting in use", but neither "Hyperlink" nor "TOC 1" appears in the list. If "Show Formatting in use" doesn't mean "show formatting in use", what does it mean? -TC |
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