Ugh, wrote a long description of what happened when I tried your suggestions
and the site jammed when I tried to post it...did turn off the keep
formatting option in Edit. the control commands didn't work, using the Style
task pane on the right, as well as the pull-down menu under the AA feature,
still didn't work (that's why I was trying format painter in the first
place). But was able to use format painter to apply correct style to one
paragraph, but would work on next paragraph. Had to turn off painter, then
turn it back on. When I try to use the painter across multiple graphs, it
works for the first graph, then applies the Normal style instead of the style
I selected for all the other graphs. The task pane and AA area show this
happening -- display goes from desired style to Normal.
This problem happens to me a lot, as I use all kinds of source docs in my
work, with cut/paste...I just never tried to post a question about it until
today.
So I'd like to be able to use the Styles task pane instead of format painter.
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
I wonder if perhaps the Keep Track of Formating setting is part of the
problem/confusion. Tools - Options - Edit tab.
It sounds like in one of your locations, Word is showing the direct
formatting information, which can be confusing. To restore all formatting in
a paragraph to the formatting provided only by the style definition, select
the paragraph and press Ctrl+Space (this resets all character formatting to
that of the style), and then Ctrl+Q (this resets all paragraph formatting
to that of the style).
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
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"pasdetrois" wrote in message
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I'm trying to apply simple custom styles to a doc. Success in the first
couple paragraphs. But then in a new paragraph when I apply the style,
using
the Format Painter, the font comes up different (Garamond instead of TNR).
The correct style name shows in the "AA" area, but the in the tool bar
area
next to it, it says Garamond. I went into Modify Style and it shows the
correct format that I want. So where did Garamond come from?
I did not select Automatically Update when I created the style. The
content
was pasted in from another doc, but it was not Garamond.
I've been reading various tutorials and I wonder if this is based on the
style parent/child and cascading style sheets effect. Should I re-create
the
styles using No Style? How do you absolute prevent a style from changing,
unless you manually tell it to? (I know that you can do something to
prevent
other users from changing the style, but I don't think that's the intent
I'm
after.)
I'm using Word 2003.