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Disable Linked Styles
Please tell me the purpose of the Disable Linked Styles check box that
appears at the bottom of the Styles task pane. I cannot figure out what it does; I've tried working with styles with the check box clicked and not clicked and cannot find any differences. Please help; it's crucial I figure this out asap! -- cmc |
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Disable Linked Styles
Hi CMC
cmc wrote: Please tell me the purpose of the Disable Linked Styles check box that appears at the bottom of the Styles task pane. I cannot figure out what it does; I've tried working with styles with the check box clicked and not clicked and cannot find any differences. A "linked style" is what Word (IIRC in versions 2002 and some unpatched 2003) creates when you select some text but not an entire paragraph and assign a paragraph style to it. Word then applies the font properties of the style to the selection and creates ("on the fly") a character style linkd back to the original paragraph style. In above versions, a casual user might end up with a couple of these styles (and "stylename char char char ..." as a stylename). Cindy Meister has a short code if you need to get rid of these styles: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Disable Linked Styles
Thank you! I should have clarified th at I'm working with Word 2007 b2R and
want to know what happens when I disable linked styles (i.e., check the box at the bottom of the Styles pane in Word 2007). I've tried creating a paragraph, applying a character style to just one word, then clicking elswhere in the paragraph and changing the paragraph style. Some parts of the character style also update which makes sense given the explanation of liinked styles. However, when I deselect "disable linked styles," and repeat the above process with the character/paragraph style combo, I get the exact same result. In other words, I can't see any difference between checked and unchecked. Can you tell me a way to test the difference between disable and not disabled? -- cmc "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi CMC cmc wrote: Please tell me the purpose of the Disable Linked Styles check box that appears at the bottom of the Styles task pane. I cannot figure out what it does; I've tried working with styles with the check box clicked and not clicked and cannot find any differences. A "linked style" is what Word (IIRC in versions 2002 and some unpatched 2003) creates when you select some text but not an entire paragraph and assign a paragraph style to it. Word then applies the font properties of the style to the selection and creates ("on the fly") a character style linkd back to the original paragraph style. In above versions, a casual user might end up with a couple of these styles (and "stylename char char char ..." as a stylename). Cindy Meister has a short code if you need to get rid of these styles: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Disable Linked Styles
cmc wrote:
Thank you! I should have clarified th at I'm working with Word 2007 b2R and want to know what happens when I disable linked styles (i.e., check the box at the bottom of the Styles pane in Word 2007). I haven't tested with that version, hopefully somebody else has a suggestion. Regards Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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