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Purpose of the "Automatically Update Document Styles" Option?
Hello:
Could one of you gurus of Word 2007 describe to me the purpose of the Automatically Update Document Styles option, which option appears on the "Modify Styles" or "Create New Style from Formatting" dialogue boxes? I have been laboring under a misapprehension that "checking" this option would be helpful. However, it has proven to be more of a nuisance than anything else. In other words, when would one "check" this option? -- Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. JBC |
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Purpose of the "Automatically Update Document Styles" Option?
When this option is enabled, any change that you make to a single paragraph
in a given style is made to the style itself and propagated to all other paragraphs in the style. This can be helpful when you're first starting to format a document or create a template and haven't quite decided how you want styles to be formatted, and it's quite useful in the TOC styles (where it is on by default) because they are so difficult to access for modifying, but ordinarily, once you've defined your styles the way you want them, you want it turned off so that you can apply direct formatting to individual paragraphs in a style without affecting the style itself and all the other paragraphs in that style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "EstateJD" wrote in message ... Hello: Could one of you gurus of Word 2007 describe to me the purpose of the Automatically Update Document Styles option, which option appears on the "Modify Styles" or "Create New Style from Formatting" dialogue boxes? I have been laboring under a misapprehension that "checking" this option would be helpful. However, it has proven to be more of a nuisance than anything else. In other words, when would one "check" this option? -- Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. JBC |
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Purpose of the "Automatically Update Document Styles" Option?
Thank you very much, Ms. Barnhill. I appreciate your very thorough and
helpful explanation and hope that others do as well. I've always wondered about this option and never received a clear description--until today, that is. Thanks again. -- Thanks for your time and consideration. JBC "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When this option is enabled, any change that you make to a single paragraph in a given style is made to the style itself and propagated to all other paragraphs in the style. This can be helpful when you're first starting to format a document or create a template and haven't quite decided how you want styles to be formatted, and it's quite useful in the TOC styles (where it is on by default) because they are so difficult to access for modifying, but ordinarily, once you've defined your styles the way you want them, you want it turned off so that you can apply direct formatting to individual paragraphs in a style without affecting the style itself and all the other paragraphs in that style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "EstateJD" wrote in message ... Hello: Could one of you gurus of Word 2007 describe to me the purpose of the Automatically Update Document Styles option, which option appears on the "Modify Styles" or "Create New Style from Formatting" dialogue boxes? I have been laboring under a misapprehension that "checking" this option would be helpful. However, it has proven to be more of a nuisance than anything else. In other words, when would one "check" this option? -- Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. JBC |
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Purpose of the "Automatically Update Document Styles" Option?
You're very welcome.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "EstateJD" wrote in message ... Thank you very much, Ms. Barnhill. I appreciate your very thorough and helpful explanation and hope that others do as well. I've always wondered about this option and never received a clear description--until today, that is. Thanks again. -- Thanks for your time and consideration. JBC "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When this option is enabled, any change that you make to a single paragraph in a given style is made to the style itself and propagated to all other paragraphs in the style. This can be helpful when you're first starting to format a document or create a template and haven't quite decided how you want styles to be formatted, and it's quite useful in the TOC styles (where it is on by default) because they are so difficult to access for modifying, but ordinarily, once you've defined your styles the way you want them, you want it turned off so that you can apply direct formatting to individual paragraphs in a style without affecting the style itself and all the other paragraphs in that style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "EstateJD" wrote in message ... Hello: Could one of you gurus of Word 2007 describe to me the purpose of the Automatically Update Document Styles option, which option appears on the "Modify Styles" or "Create New Style from Formatting" dialogue boxes? I have been laboring under a misapprehension that "checking" this option would be helpful. However, it has proven to be more of a nuisance than anything else. In other words, when would one "check" this option? -- Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. JBC |
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