Hello Word Experts!

I hope you will find some time to help this Word amateur with his problem.

I am trying to make a template for my company, as I have (perhaps rather
naive) belief that this will all of us save some time. With LaTeX, in
which I have some expertise, styling is difficult, but has fabulous
results, in word styling is buggy and often does not provide options you
want to change.

Well, we do a lot of tables and text in tables should be 10 points only.
However, it is impossible to do that, in table style all sizes but 10
points work. I have searched www and did find some references to this
problem, but no real solution. The only solution suggested was to make
Normal style 10 points, but of course such solution results in total
mess with ALL OTHER STYLES (which are, of course, also based on Normal).
So this is - as I see it - out of the question. There is also another
thing I have noted and which is not documented on www. If I wish to do
vertical AND horizontal alignment of text in tables, normal style text
should be left aligned. In my case we use justified alignment, so my
alignments specified in the table style are simply ignored by Word!

You guys are the very last straw in my pursuit. Should I give up and
conclude that Word styling is crap and let my coworkers and myself
continue writing dirty documents (with 200+ ad hoc styles!) Or is there
a light in the end of the tunnel?

Thank you for your answers and best regards,

Marko


(if possible, reply to e-mail as well)

It is not a particularly bright plan to base all text styles on normal.

By default the text in a table is from the normal style; however, you can
apply any text style to the text in a table, just like any other text. e.g.
create a style called 'table body text' based on 'no style' and with 10
points of whatever font you like and apply it to the table.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Marko Pinteric wrote:
Hello Word Experts!

I hope you will find some time to help this Word amateur with his
problem.

I am trying to make a template for my company, as I have (perhaps
rather naive) belief that this will all of us save some time. With
LaTeX, in which I have some expertise, styling is difficult, but has
fabulous results, in word styling is buggy and often does not provide
options you want to change.

Well, we do a lot of tables and text in tables should be 10 points
only. However, it is impossible to do that, in table style all sizes
but 10 points work. I have searched www and did find some references
to this problem, but no real solution. The only solution suggested
was to make Normal style 10 points, but of course such solution
results in total
mess with ALL OTHER STYLES (which are, of course, also based on
Normal). So this is - as I see it - out of the question. There is
also another thing I have noted and which is not documented on www.
If I wish to do vertical AND horizontal alignment of text in tables,
normal style text should be left aligned. In my case we use
justified alignment, so my alignments specified in the table style
are simply ignored by Word!

You guys are the very last straw in my pursuit. Should I give up and
conclude that Word styling is crap and let my coworkers and myself
continue writing dirty documents (with 200+ ad hoc styles!) Or is
there a light in the end of the tunnel?

Thank you for your answers and best regards,

Marko


(if possible, reply to e-mail as well)

Word takes Normal as a default style for everything, e.g., when you copy
and paste from other documents, it is always Normal style. So it is
impossible to avoid Normal style as some kind of default style.

Or is it?

Marko

Graham Mayor wrote:
It is not a particularly bright plan to base all text styles on normal.

You are not going to be able to avoid the influence of the 'normal'
paragraph style completely, but that does not mean you should set it as the
base for your personal styles. You can change the base style for your
personal styles to 'no style' in the format style dialog. The format style
dialog will take the style characteristics at the cursor as a start point.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Marko Pinteric wrote:
Word takes Normal as a default style for everything, e.g., when you
copy and paste from other documents, it is always Normal style. So
it is impossible to avoid Normal style as some kind of default style.

Or is it?

Marko

Graham Mayor wrote:
It is not a particularly bright plan to base all text styles on
normal.

Thank you for your answer.

Just one more question. What is better to do?

1. base my main personal "Paragraph" style on "no style" and all other
personal styles on "Paragraph" style

2. base all or most of my personal styles on "no style"

Best regards, Marko.

Graham Mayor wrote:
You are not going to be able to avoid the influence of the 'normal'
paragraph style completely, but that does not mean you should set it as the
base for your personal styles. You can change the base style for your
personal styles to 'no style' in the format style dialog. The format style
dialog will take the style characteristics at the cursor as a start point.