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Auto Format Settings & new normal.dot
Well, here is one to start with:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm. The gray brackets are probably bookmarks; clear the relevant check box on the View tab of Tools | Options. -- 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. wrote in message ... Had to reinstall Office 2003 after HD failure. Am now 'stuck' with a NEW 'default', normal.dot which I'm trying to modify. I've forgotten what settings to use to: -Move just ONE item (ie picture, formatting, etc) and not have all of them move throughout the entire section/document. -which 'auto format' settings to use/disable (I used to have an MVP page bookmarked which exactly specified these settings & loved it! It also is 'gone' in transfer to new HD) Getting these settings correct, really 'tames' the beast! -Getting rid of those gray, non-delectable brackets! TIA! |
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Got a longer document. As I want to make simple formatting using Formating toolbar Word reformats the style instead of the text. This happens only if the whole paragraph is selected and not in the case of single word(s). That means when I center one paragraph (Normal style ) word reformats the whole document with all instances of Normal! It takes ages and then ages for undo to return formatting. Quite abnormal behavior that makes formatting a nightmare. I did turn off most of the settings in Autoformat and Autocorrect but it still behaves the same. Wonder which setting is responsible? Rado |
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CTRL+Z will correct any unwanted formatting immediately. The reformatting of
the whole document is addressed at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Rado Lavrih wrote: Got a longer document. As I want to make simple formatting using Formatting toolbar Word reformats the style instead of the text. This happens only if the whole paragraph is selected and not in the case of single word(s). That means when I center one paragraph (Normal style ) word reformats the whole document with all instances of Normal! It takes ages and then ages for undo to return formatting. Quite abnormal behavior that makes formatting a nightmare. I did turn off most of the settings in Autoformat and Autocorrect but it still behaves the same. Wonder which setting is responsible? Rado |
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The "red and white" site you describe could be mine
(http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs); perhaps the page you were thinking of was http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/...gWord2002.htm? -- 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. wrote in message ... On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:04:18 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, here is one to start with: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm. The gray brackets are probably bookmarks; clear the relevant check box on the View tab of Tools | Options. That was it. Or rather, like the page I had bookmarked before. (I'm pretty sure it was the private page of an MVP and it was in red & white). But the PRINCIPLES ARE THE SAME! Actually, I was at that site, from google and didn't find THAT section. (Thought nav and visual very difficult on that site.) Thanks so much! I changed all those settings, now maybe I can some work done this week... But what is the setting where I change one pic or paragraph from center to elsewhere, and all pics in entire section move??? Or I bold something and ditto... Is that controlled via the 'auto' settings also? |
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:56:00 -0800, wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:57:42 -0500, Jay Freedman wrote: I'll send you back to the same site for another page: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm That worked also! EXCEPT: on an existing manuscript, I have two inserted pics, one at bottom of page, hard page break, next pic (no text between the two-except page #). And that's what it's supposed to be. BUT, These TWO small pics continue to format in unison, but now, NOT any other graphics in manuscript, they are staying put, thank goodness! (When I get THIS normal.dot set up properly, am going to put on floppy!) When you apply paragraph formatting, it applies to the entire paragraph. A hard page break is NOT a paragraph break, so both pictures are in the same paragraph and subject to the same formatting. If you need to format them differently, put the cursor after the first picture and press Enter (it helps to turn on nonprinting characters with the ¶ button, so you can see where the paragraph mark goes with respect to the page break). I sincerely hope you aren't doing this in your normal.dot template, because that would affect every new blank document you create afterward. Save the template with some other name, and choose it in the File New dialog when you need a new document of this specific type. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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I think Jay had lost track of the thread and thought you were putting these
pictures in Normal.dot. -- 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. wrote in message ... On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:43:12 -0500, Jay Freedman wrote: I sincerely hope you aren't doing this in your normal.dot template, because that would affect every new blank document you create afterward. Save the template with some other name, and choose it in the File New dialog when you need a new document of this specific type. In the past (Many years!) have always altered normal.dot template, as I ALWAYS use the same format. Period. And can't you always get a 'new' default, normal.dot just by renaming or deleting the old one??? That is, if ya really needed one : - However, since, you just reminded me of this: I'm working in a manuscript.doc and have marked each change as 'add to template'. Will save it as a template... I truly thank you for helping a 'software dummie! |
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