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Tools Protect Document Limit formatting a selection of styles.
"Julie Armstrong" wrote in message ... How do you lock styles in Word 2003? "Ratcliff" wrote in message ... Thanks to both of you for your input. Very helpful. I believe I'll go with the locking styles - I have the user committed to about 20 (much like Herb's list with a few extras). I have a script to strip out word gunk and map the styles for the web version and that sounds like the best I can do for now. Again, thanks for the help and ideas. Cheers Philippa On Jul 17, 6:08 pm, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Ratcliff wrote: Dang it! This is a document citing various legal issues and is published in print yearly. Unfortunately, the example I gave isn't an exaggeration. In Quark and InDesign, stacking is possible. Adding a Bold to an Italic doesn't have the bold overwrite the italic style. I'd use these applications but this document has about 1000 endnotes (also not an exaggeration) and neither app. handles endnotes. hmm, didn't know ID couldn't speak Endnotes. I'm pretty sure you could emulate something similar, though (like, simply a numbered list at the end (or wherever) to which you cross-reference ... Do you have any other suggestions that might make this easier for the user to do his edits? I want to force styles because this document will soon be published on a website. By limiting the styles, I can get a clean conversion. I don't think there's a simple solution. If you use Word's built-in "locking for styles", you need to analyze the document model carefully and, well, offer the user all styles he needs. And for those things that most of us, despite preaching about "styles, styles, and nothing but styles", are usually handled with direct formatting (bold/italics/underlines and all combinations thereof), you need a character style. Another approach is to leave the styles open, and then run a macro over the document that at least checks all the paragraph styles are "correct" (in the sense of: have not been changed or newly invented). And yet another is teaching your users to behave, of course ... :-) Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word |http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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