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Two questions please:
Q1. I am to coordinate writing a technical book with many contributors. I would like them to use a template I have created in Word 2003, containing new styles, including marginal notes. Would the template be usable in previous versions of Word? Any caveats? Q2. For the marginal note, is it possible to define font, font size and color for the marginal note frame, different from the rest of the document? If so, how to do it? Also, many thanks to Suzanne Barnhill for her tutorial on marginal text at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm (as well as her other excellent articles there). Thanks, -- JanAdam |
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Most of what you are likely to put in such a template would be
backward-compatible at least to Word 2002 and probably Word 2000 as well. Unless you have gone wild with font and border/shading colors or nested tables or picture bullets and the like, you're probably good back to Word 97. A framed style can have all the attributes of any paragraph style, including font, font size, and color. Your question suggests that you are not familiar with using styles. I would suggest you compare, say, Normal, style (on which most of the other built-in styles are based) and Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles, which have distinctly different font and font sizes from Normal, as well as Spacing Before/After, Keep with next formatting, etc. That's the point of styles: to be able to apply a variety of font and paragraph formats in a single stroke. -- 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. "JanAdam" wrote in message ... Two questions please: Q1. I am to coordinate writing a technical book with many contributors. I would like them to use a template I have created in Word 2003, containing new styles, including marginal notes. Would the template be usable in previous versions of Word? Any caveats? Q2. For the marginal note, is it possible to define font, font size and color for the marginal note frame, different from the rest of the document? If so, how to do it? Also, many thanks to Suzanne Barnhill for her tutorial on marginal text at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm (as well as her other excellent articles there). Thanks, -- JanAdam |
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Thank you. You are right, in the past I have not been using styles. To the
contrary, it was one of those annoing things where the application seems to know better what I want. A need for marginal notes forced me there. I have a fair understanding of the concept, I think, but I do not have the 'how to' knowledge. With a bit of experimenting, a few try and errors, I will get there, I hope -- JanAdam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most of what you are likely to put in such a template would be backward-compatible at least to Word 2002 and probably Word 2000 as well. Unless you have gone wild with font and border/shading colors or nested tables or picture bullets and the like, you're probably good back to Word 97. A framed style can have all the attributes of any paragraph style, including font, font size, and color. Your question suggests that you are not familiar with using styles. I would suggest you compare, say, Normal, style (on which most of the other built-in styles are based) and Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles, which have distinctly different font and font sizes from Normal, as well as Spacing Before/After, Keep with next formatting, etc. That's the point of styles: to be able to apply a variety of font and paragraph formats in a single stroke. -- 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. "JanAdam" wrote in message ... Two questions please: Q1. I am to coordinate writing a technical book with many contributors. I would like them to use a template I have created in Word 2003, containing new styles, including marginal notes. Would the template be usable in previous versions of Word? Any caveats? Q2. For the marginal note, is it possible to define font, font size and color for the marginal note frame, different from the rest of the document? If so, how to do it? Also, many thanks to Suzanne Barnhill for her tutorial on marginal text at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm (as well as her other excellent articles there). Thanks, -- JanAdam |
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Have a look at these articles for a start:
How to apply a style in Word http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ApplyAStyle.html How to modify a style in Word http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...ifyAStyle.html How the Styles and Formatting pane works in Word 2002 and 2003 http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpa...ttingPane.html Shauna Kellys article on styles http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/column14.asp Why use Words built-in heading styles? http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...ingStyles.html -- 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. "JanAdam" wrote in message ... Thank you. You are right, in the past I have not been using styles. To the contrary, it was one of those annoing things where the application seems to know better what I want. A need for marginal notes forced me there. I have a fair understanding of the concept, I think, but I do not have the 'how to' knowledge. With a bit of experimenting, a few try and errors, I will get there, I hope -- JanAdam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most of what you are likely to put in such a template would be backward-compatible at least to Word 2002 and probably Word 2000 as well. Unless you have gone wild with font and border/shading colors or nested tables or picture bullets and the like, you're probably good back to Word 97. A framed style can have all the attributes of any paragraph style, including font, font size, and color. Your question suggests that you are not familiar with using styles. I would suggest you compare, say, Normal, style (on which most of the other built-in styles are based) and Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles, which have distinctly different font and font sizes from Normal, as well as Spacing Before/After, Keep with next formatting, etc. That's the point of styles: to be able to apply a variety of font and paragraph formats in a single stroke. -- 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. "JanAdam" wrote in message ... Two questions please: Q1. I am to coordinate writing a technical book with many contributors. I would like them to use a template I have created in Word 2003, containing new styles, including marginal notes. Would the template be usable in previous versions of Word? Any caveats? Q2. For the marginal note, is it possible to define font, font size and color for the marginal note frame, different from the rest of the document? If so, how to do it? Also, many thanks to Suzanne Barnhill for her tutorial on marginal text at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm (as well as her other excellent articles there). Thanks, -- JanAdam |
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Thanks again Suzanne,
-- JanAdam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have a look at these articles for a start: How to apply a style in Word http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ApplyAStyle.html How to modify a style in Word http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...ifyAStyle.html How the Styles and Formatting pane works in Word 2002 and 2003 http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpa...ttingPane.html Shauna Kellys article on styles http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/column14.asp Why use Words built-in heading styles? http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...ingStyles.html -- 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. "JanAdam" wrote in message ... Thank you. You are right, in the past I have not been using styles. To the contrary, it was one of those annoing things where the application seems to know better what I want. A need for marginal notes forced me there. I have a fair understanding of the concept, I think, but I do not have the 'how to' knowledge. With a bit of experimenting, a few try and errors, I will get there, I hope -- JanAdam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most of what you are likely to put in such a template would be backward-compatible at least to Word 2002 and probably Word 2000 as well. Unless you have gone wild with font and border/shading colors or nested tables or picture bullets and the like, you're probably good back to Word 97. A framed style can have all the attributes of any paragraph style, including font, font size, and color. Your question suggests that you are not familiar with using styles. I would suggest you compare, say, Normal, style (on which most of the other built-in styles are based) and Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles, which have distinctly different font and font sizes from Normal, as well as Spacing Before/After, Keep with next formatting, etc. That's the point of styles: to be able to apply a variety of font and paragraph formats in a single stroke. -- 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. "JanAdam" wrote in message ... Two questions please: Q1. I am to coordinate writing a technical book with many contributors. I would like them to use a template I have created in Word 2003, containing new styles, including marginal notes. Would the template be usable in previous versions of Word? Any caveats? Q2. For the marginal note, is it possible to define font, font size and color for the marginal note frame, different from the rest of the document? If so, how to do it? Also, many thanks to Suzanne Barnhill for her tutorial on marginal text at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm (as well as her other excellent articles there). Thanks, -- JanAdam |
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