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Formatting in Word 2002
I would like to thank all of the MVPs for the work that you have
given to helping users learn formatting. I am a 72 year old women who has been using a computer for years but gave up trying to use Word until my son got me Microsoft Suite 2006 which is where the newsgroup was given as one of the Help sources. I have really been working hard at Shauna's tutorials and have printed out just about everything that all of you have written. I am indexing all of my binders that I use for my hobbies. I was wasting too much time looking for articles so decided to take the plunge. 1. I have several binders full of the articles written by the MVPs. I realized that this would be a good starting point to format an index for each of the binders I have with your articles. I have turned out some pretty good looking indices (in my eyes)g In Basic Concept 4 Shauna says in the paragraph" How to remove the border"that the gridlines won't show when printed out. I have taken all of the steps she gives but the gridlines still print out. I just can't get rid of those gridlines. This isn't a big problem, but I would like to understand why the gridlines print out. 2. When the Modify Style Dialogue box comes up asking "Do you want to update the Style to relect changes"? or "Reapply the formatting of the style to the section" and lastly "Automatically update the Style from now on". I'm just not sure what I should do. I have just cancelled it because I don't want to mess up. 3. I Save as I go along, sometimes when I go to the Folder to work on the formatting tutorials I notice that some of the files have the following: ~$W to use the Reviewing Toolbar in Microsoft Toolbar in MSWord 2002. Why does it have ~$W. I opened the file but it was just gobblygook. 4. I used one of Shauna's articles and clicked on "Styles and Formatting" just to see how she formatted the article. What I want is to number the article say as 1. then for the other articles belonging to the main article have it showing as 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and then for the second article in the index or list 2., 2.2, 2.3. is that clear enough? 5. Last question: I have gone back to some of my tutorials and find that the formatting has changed. It doesn't happen all of the time. It seems to happen when I have used the bulleted formatting. What am I doing wrong? It would be so easy for me to find what I am looking for. Thankyou all for your help deejay Deejay from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada -- Deejay from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada |
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Deejay,
Thanks for your kind remarks. I will attempt to answer a few of your questions. 1. There are table borders and there are gridlines. Borders can be added or removed from a table and altered (i.e, thickened, colored, etc.). Gridlines mark the boundaries of each table and the complete table they can be visible or hidden put they are always present. Gridlines NEVER print but borders do. For example. Insert a table. Provided that you haven't altered the properties of the default table style you will most likely see a table with borders. If you print this document the borders will print. Place your cursor inside the table and CTRL+ALT+U. This shortcut removes all borders. Can you see the gridlines? If not, the use the menu TablesShow Gridlines. 2. That dialog appears when you have applied direct formatting to one of your styles and then attempt to reapply the style to the text. The prompt gives you a choice to revert the text back to the style settings, or change the style settings to match those of the text. Lets say I have a document with twenty sub-headings formatted with Heading 2 style. My heading 2 style is Arial, 14, Bold, Italic. While editing I select the first heading and make it underlined. I decide uumm I like that. So I can click the Heading 2 style again and using that prompt I select Update the style to reflect the recent changes then the other 19 sub-headings will automatically take on the look of the first heading. The other option lets me change my mind and go back to the original style. The third option simply removes the choice and will automatically update the style in the future. To tell you the truth, I don't know how you would undo that ;-) I'll leave 3 - 5 to one of the other MVPs. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. "deejay" wrote in message ... I would like to thank all of the MVPs for the work that you have given to helping users learn formatting. I am a 72 year old women who has been using a computer for years but gave up trying to use Word until my son got me Microsoft Suite 2006 which is where the newsgroup was given as one of the Help sources. I have really been working hard at Shauna's tutorials and have printed out just about everything that all of you have written. I am indexing all of my binders that I use for my hobbies. I was wasting too much time looking for articles so decided to take the plunge. 1. I have several binders full of the articles written by the MVPs. I realized that this would be a good starting point to format an index for each of the binders I have with your articles. I have turned out some pretty good looking indices (in my eyes)g In Basic Concept 4 Shauna says in the paragraph" How to remove the border"that the gridlines won't show when printed out. I have taken all of the steps she gives but the gridlines still print out. I just can't get rid of those gridlines. This isn't a big problem, but I would like to understand why the gridlines print out. 2. When the Modify Style Dialogue box comes up asking "Do you want to update the Style to relect changes"? or "Reapply the formatting of the style to the section" and lastly "Automatically update the Style from now on". I'm just not sure what I should do. I have just cancelled it because I don't want to mess up. 3. I Save as I go along, sometimes when I go to the Folder to work on the formatting tutorials I notice that some of the files have the following: ~$W to use the Reviewing Toolbar in Microsoft Toolbar in MSWord 2002. Why does it have ~$W. I opened the file but it was just gobblygook. 4. I used one of Shauna's articles and clicked on "Styles and Formatting" just to see how she formatted the article. What I want is to number the article say as 1. then for the other articles belonging to the main article have it showing as 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and then for the second article in the index or list 2., 2.2, 2.3. is that clear enough? 5. Last question: I have gone back to some of my tutorials and find that the formatting has changed. It doesn't happen all of the time. It seems to happen when I have used the bulleted formatting. What am I doing wrong? It would be so easy for me to find what I am looking for. Thankyou all for your help deejay Deejay from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada -- Deejay from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada |
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To take up where Greg left off:
3. Any file that begins with ~$ and has a .doc extension is the "owner" file corresponding to a file you have open. It keeps anyone else on the machine (or a network) from opening the same file for editing while you're using it (if you open it, you'll see it has your name in it). For more on this and other temporary files Word creates, see “Description of how Word creates temporary files” at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632. Another type of temporary file you may see is one with a ~wrlxxxx.tmp filename. These are created when you save a document; although the KB article says they're Clipboard files, I have been unable to establish any clear connection between copying/pasting and the creation of these files, but if you open one, you'll find it's a complete copy of a previous version of the document. Like other temp files, these are deleted when you close the document. If you ever see an owner file (or other temp files) for a document that is not open, it's okay to delete it (Word won't let you delete it while the document is open); see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm. Questions 4 and 5 seem to be about copies of Web pages you've saved in Word. Because HTML formatting and Word's document layout can be very different, it's not surprising that Shauna's articles perhaps don't translate well into Word. But if you apply bullets to one or more paragraphs and find that they are applied to all, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.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. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Deejay, Thanks for your kind remarks. I will attempt to answer a few of your questions. 1. There are table borders and there are gridlines. Borders can be added or removed from a table and altered (i.e, thickened, colored, etc.). Gridlines mark the boundaries of each table and the complete table they can be visible or hidden put they are always present. Gridlines NEVER print but borders do. For example. Insert a table. Provided that you haven't altered the properties of the default table style you will most likely see a table with borders. If you print this document the borders will print. Place your cursor inside the table and CTRL+ALT+U. This shortcut removes all borders. Can you see the gridlines? If not, the use the menu TablesShow Gridlines. 2. That dialog appears when you have applied direct formatting to one of your styles and then attempt to reapply the style to the text. The prompt gives you a choice to revert the text back to the style settings, or change the style settings to match those of the text. Lets say I have a document with twenty sub-headings formatted with Heading 2 style. My heading 2 style is Arial, 14, Bold, Italic. While editing I select the first heading and make it underlined. I decide uumm I like that. So I can click the Heading 2 style again and using that prompt I select Update the style to reflect the recent changes then the other 19 sub-headings will automatically take on the look of the first heading. The other option lets me change my mind and go back to the original style. The third option simply removes the choice and will automatically update the style in the future. To tell you the truth, I don't know how you would undo that ;-) I'll leave 3 - 5 to one of the other MVPs. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. "deejay" wrote in message ... I would like to thank all of the MVPs for the work that you have given to helping users learn formatting. I am a 72 year old women who has been using a computer for years but gave up trying to use Word until my son got me Microsoft Suite 2006 which is where the newsgroup was given as one of the Help sources. I have really been working hard at Shauna's tutorials and have printed out just about everything that all of you have written. I am indexing all of my binders that I use for my hobbies. I was wasting too much time looking for articles so decided to take the plunge. 1. I have several binders full of the articles written by the MVPs. I realized that this would be a good starting point to format an index for each of the binders I have with your articles. I have turned out some pretty good looking indices (in my eyes)g In Basic Concept 4 Shauna says in the paragraph" How to remove the border"that the gridlines won't show when printed out. I have taken all of the steps she gives but the gridlines still print out. I just can't get rid of those gridlines. This isn't a big problem, but I would like to understand why the gridlines print out. 2. When the Modify Style Dialogue box comes up asking "Do you want to update the Style to relect changes"? or "Reapply the formatting of the style to the section" and lastly "Automatically update the Style from now on". I'm just not sure what I should do. I have just cancelled it because I don't want to mess up. 3. I Save as I go along, sometimes when I go to the Folder to work on the formatting tutorials I notice that some of the files have the following: ~$W to use the Reviewing Toolbar in Microsoft Toolbar in MSWord 2002. Why does it have ~$W. I opened the file but it was just gobblygook. 4. I used one of Shauna's articles and clicked on "Styles and Formatting" just to see how she formatted the article. What I want is to number the article say as 1. then for the other articles belonging to the main article have it showing as 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and then for the second article in the index or list 2., 2.2, 2.3. is that clear enough? 5. Last question: I have gone back to some of my tutorials and find that the formatting has changed. It doesn't happen all of the time. It seems to happen when I have used the bulleted formatting. What am I doing wrong? It would be so easy for me to find what I am looking for. Thankyou all for your help deejay Deejay from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada -- Deejay from Beautiful Georgian Bay, ON. Canada |
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