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Multiple Font Color buttons possible?
I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text
differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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Multiple Font Color buttons possible?
Simpler would be to define a pair of character styles (eg 'new' and
'deleted'), and associate those with toolbar buttons. But why are you re-inventing the wheel like this? -- why not just switch on track changes have Word style your new and deleted text automatically? "Nicole" wrote in message ... I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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I'll try the character styles. It may get a little tricky though because the
documents already use certain styles and I don't want to mess anything up. I guess I should have given a little more info. The legal documents I work on are leases for tenants in shopping centers. Our attorneys create these "template" leases and we "adjust" them based on the negotiations made with the tenant. As a company rule, we cannot use track changes (I don't know why - I just started there a month ago so I'm just "goin' with the flow."). So I'll give the character styles a try and let you know how that works. In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions, I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!! "Jezebel" wrote: Simpler would be to define a pair of character styles (eg 'new' and 'deleted'), and associate those with toolbar buttons. But why are you re-inventing the wheel like this? -- why not just switch on track changes have Word style your new and deleted text automatically? "Nicole" wrote in message ... I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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Multiple Font Color buttons possible?
I tried to use newly-created styles but because the documents already use
certain styles (like paragraph indentation and outline formats), the text not only changes color and underline style (like I want it to) but also changes to a "normal" style (like I don't want it to). Is it possible to have the desired text change color and underline but retain it's original styling? I read another post about macros but am not familiar with that. Would that be helpful in attaining my desired effect? "Nicole" wrote: I'll try the character styles. It may get a little tricky though because the documents already use certain styles and I don't want to mess anything up. I guess I should have given a little more info. The legal documents I work on are leases for tenants in shopping centers. Our attorneys create these "template" leases and we "adjust" them based on the negotiations made with the tenant. As a company rule, we cannot use track changes (I don't know why - I just started there a month ago so I'm just "goin' with the flow."). So I'll give the character styles a try and let you know how that works. In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions, I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!! "Jezebel" wrote: Simpler would be to define a pair of character styles (eg 'new' and 'deleted'), and associate those with toolbar buttons. But why are you re-inventing the wheel like this? -- why not just switch on track changes have Word style your new and deleted text automatically? "Nicole" wrote in message ... I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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You want to make sure that your character style is based on Default
Paragraph Font. Then it will apply on the color and any other formatting you select. Have a look at the Hyperlink style as an example. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Nicole" wrote in message ... I tried to use newly-created styles but because the documents already use certain styles (like paragraph indentation and outline formats), the text not only changes color and underline style (like I want it to) but also changes to a "normal" style (like I don't want it to). Is it possible to have the desired text change color and underline but retain it's original styling? I read another post about macros but am not familiar with that. Would that be helpful in attaining my desired effect? "Nicole" wrote: I'll try the character styles. It may get a little tricky though because the documents already use certain styles and I don't want to mess anything up. I guess I should have given a little more info. The legal documents I work on are leases for tenants in shopping centers. Our attorneys create these "template" leases and we "adjust" them based on the negotiations made with the tenant. As a company rule, we cannot use track changes (I don't know why - I just started there a month ago so I'm just "goin' with the flow."). So I'll give the character styles a try and let you know how that works. In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions, I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!! "Jezebel" wrote: Simpler would be to define a pair of character styles (eg 'new' and 'deleted'), and associate those with toolbar buttons. But why are you re-inventing the wheel like this? -- why not just switch on track changes have Word style your new and deleted text automatically? "Nicole" wrote in message ... I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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I think you've missed the distinction between paragraph styles and character
styles. If you look in the style list you'll see there are a few (eg hyperlink) whose symbol is an underlined 'a' instead of the more common paragraph mark. Create a new style and have a look at the 'Style type' field. "Nicole" wrote in message ... I tried to use newly-created styles but because the documents already use certain styles (like paragraph indentation and outline formats), the text not only changes color and underline style (like I want it to) but also changes to a "normal" style (like I don't want it to). Is it possible to have the desired text change color and underline but retain it's original styling? I read another post about macros but am not familiar with that. Would that be helpful in attaining my desired effect? "Nicole" wrote: I'll try the character styles. It may get a little tricky though because the documents already use certain styles and I don't want to mess anything up. I guess I should have given a little more info. The legal documents I work on are leases for tenants in shopping centers. Our attorneys create these "template" leases and we "adjust" them based on the negotiations made with the tenant. As a company rule, we cannot use track changes (I don't know why - I just started there a month ago so I'm just "goin' with the flow."). So I'll give the character styles a try and let you know how that works. In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions, I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!! "Jezebel" wrote: Simpler would be to define a pair of character styles (eg 'new' and 'deleted'), and associate those with toolbar buttons. But why are you re-inventing the wheel like this? -- why not just switch on track changes have Word style your new and deleted text automatically? "Nicole" wrote in message ... I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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Multiple Font Color buttons possible?
Jezebel, you're right. I changed it to character style and it works
perfectly!! Thank you so much to everyone who posted here. "Jezebel" wrote: I think you've missed the distinction between paragraph styles and character styles. If you look in the style list you'll see there are a few (eg hyperlink) whose symbol is an underlined 'a' instead of the more common paragraph mark. Create a new style and have a look at the 'Style type' field. "Nicole" wrote in message ... I tried to use newly-created styles but because the documents already use certain styles (like paragraph indentation and outline formats), the text not only changes color and underline style (like I want it to) but also changes to a "normal" style (like I don't want it to). Is it possible to have the desired text change color and underline but retain it's original styling? I read another post about macros but am not familiar with that. Would that be helpful in attaining my desired effect? "Nicole" wrote: I'll try the character styles. It may get a little tricky though because the documents already use certain styles and I don't want to mess anything up. I guess I should have given a little more info. The legal documents I work on are leases for tenants in shopping centers. Our attorneys create these "template" leases and we "adjust" them based on the negotiations made with the tenant. As a company rule, we cannot use track changes (I don't know why - I just started there a month ago so I'm just "goin' with the flow."). So I'll give the character styles a try and let you know how that works. In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions, I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!! "Jezebel" wrote: Simpler would be to define a pair of character styles (eg 'new' and 'deleted'), and associate those with toolbar buttons. But why are you re-inventing the wheel like this? -- why not just switch on track changes have Word style your new and deleted text automatically? "Nicole" wrote in message ... I use Word to create legal documents and I color new and deleted text differently. Newly-added text is blue & double underlined and deleted text is red & stricken. I have added the double underline and strike buttons to my toolbar to save time but would like to have a button for coloring my text red and another for coloring my text blue. I am able to get two font color buttons on the toolbar, but when I change the color of one button, it changes the color of the other. How can I get one to stay red and one to stay blue? Is this even possible? |
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