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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find
that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building
Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58*pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to
find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
By "didn't last," do you mean, not even in the document you created
them in? (That's weird.) If they don't move to your template so they're available next time, then you need to check the box about Adding to Template or Making Default in the Modify panel. On Feb 20, 9:47*pm, Paul wrote: Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501- |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
Hmmm well they weren't available in a pre-existing document, but when I
clicked on a new document (based on normal.dot obviuosly) both were available--my new style and a modified, default style. I guess new styles don't show up in old docs? that's funny but at least for future docs I'll have this -- Paul Office 2007 XP SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501. "grammatim" wrote in message ... By "didn't last," do you mean, not even in the document you created them in? (That's weird.) If they don't move to your template so they're available next time, then you need to check the box about Adding to Template or Making Default in the Modify panel. On Feb 20, 9:47 pm, Paul wrote: Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501- |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
Styles added to a template since you created the document are not added to
the document unless you re-attach the template to the document (from the developer tab). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: Hmmm well they weren't available in a pre-existing document, but when I clicked on a new document (based on normal.dot obviuosly) both were available--my new style and a modified, default style. I guess new styles don't show up in old docs? that's funny but at least for future docs I'll have this On Feb 20, 9:47 pm, Paul wrote: Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501- |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
The more I think about that it makes no sense to me at all--I really can't
be bothered to think about when I created a document. I just want to be able to format long quotations in a particular way--all the time. I'll use some other way to set this up. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Styles added to a template since you created the document are not added to the document unless you re-attach the template to the document (from the developer tab). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: Hmmm well they weren't available in a pre-existing document, but when I clicked on a new document (based on normal.dot obviuosly) both were available--my new style and a modified, default style. I guess new styles don't show up in old docs? that's funny but at least for future docs I'll have this On Feb 20, 9:47 pm, Paul wrote: Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501- |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
No I take that back. All my previous docs have already been properly
formatted. No need to go back and edit quotations in them, I suppose. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Styles added to a template since you created the document are not added to the document unless you re-attach the template to the document (from the developer tab). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: Hmmm well they weren't available in a pre-existing document, but when I clicked on a new document (based on normal.dot obviuosly) both were available--my new style and a modified, default style. I guess new styles don't show up in old docs? that's funny but at least for future docs I'll have this On Feb 20, 9:47 pm, Paul wrote: Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501- |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
Be careful what you wish for ... you seem to be asking Word to
automatically change the perhaps thousands of documents you created before today, without asking, on the basis of today's change! On Feb 21, 7:51*am, "Paul" wrote: The more I think about that it makes no sense to me at all--I really can't be bothered to think about when I created a document. I just want to be able to format long quotations in a particular way--all the time. I'll use some other way to set this up. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Styles added to a template since you created the document are not added to the document unless you re-attach the template to the document (from the developer tab). -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: Hmmm well they weren't available in a pre-existing document, but when I clicked on a new document (based on normal.dot obviuosly) both were available--my new style and a modified, default style. *I guess new styles don't show up in old docs? that's funny but at least for future docs I'll have this On Feb 20, 9:47 pm, Paul wrote: Did that. And when I created a new style, it didn't last. I wasn't able to find it in any of the lists of styles at all.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "grammatim" wrote: Ignore all the Word2007 nonsense ("Style Galleries" and "Building Blocks" and all that) and do it just like in Word2003 -- the tiny arrow at the bottom right of the Home Styles block gives you the old familiar Styles & Formatting panel. The New Style button is at its bottom left. On Feb 20, 2:58 pm, Paul wrote: Having a tough time with styles. I have tried creating new ones, only to find that they are not in Word's list of styles--when I click on Manage Styles button, or from the ribbon. I gave up on that, and tried modifying a current style, only to find that Word will not save the changes I've made to one of the default styles. Can someone link me to a page letting me know how to do one of these two simple tasks (they were simple in Office 2003)--and be able to do it again, after I close out Word? |
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Modifying styles or creating new ones in Word 2007
"Paul" wrote in message
... Hmmm well they weren't available in a pre-existing document, but when I clicked on a new document (based on normal.dot obviuosly) both were available--my new style and a modified, default style. I guess new styles don't show up in old docs? that's funny but at least for future docs I'll have this As noted in this thread, no, the new style isn't retroactive. What you can do for those documents you want to use your new an/or modified styles in is create a Quick Style Set. If you look at Change Styles and the Quick Style Sets you'll get an idea of what I'm referring to if you aren't familiar with them since this is new to Word 2007. You'll also see the ability to save a Quick Style Set at the bottom. The key to creating a Style Set is only those styles that display in the Styles Gallery will be saved in your Quick Style Set. You can add/remove styles from the Styles gallery using the Styles pane. After you save your Quick Style Set then all you have to do is open a document and select your Quick Style Set and new styles will be added and those that were modified in the Quick Style Set will be updated. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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