[PeterBBailey]

In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top
left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the
screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know
what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind
of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work
for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the
outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's
frustrating to not be able to see the styles used.
Thanks.

[Jay Freedman]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0700, PeterBBailey
wrote:

In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top
left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the
screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know
what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind
of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work
for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the
outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's
frustrating to not be able to see the styles used.
Thanks.

There are several solutions to this, but here's the one I think is the
most elegant: The style dropdown that was on the Formatting toolbar in
earlier versions of Word is still available and can be put on the
Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

Right-click the QAT and choose Customize. In the dialog, set the
"Choose commands from" box to "Commands not in the Ribbon". Select the
command that says "Style" and has a dropdown icon on the right side.
Click the Add button and click OK.

The toolbar will always show the style at the current insertion point,
and you can use the dropdown to apply another style. To determine what
styles appear in the list and in what order, open the Styles task pane
(Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom.

You might also like the little floating dialog you get by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+S.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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newsgroup so all may benefit.

[PeterBBailey]

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0700, PeterBBailey
wrote:

In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top
left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the
screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know
what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind
of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work
for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the
outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's
frustrating to not be able to see the styles used.
Thanks.

There are several solutions to this, but here's the one I think is the
most elegant: The style dropdown that was on the Formatting toolbar in
earlier versions of Word is still available and can be put on the
Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

Right-click the QAT and choose Customize. In the dialog, set the
"Choose commands from" box to "Commands not in the Ribbon". Select the
command that says "Style" and has a dropdown icon on the right side.
Click the Add button and click OK.

The toolbar will always show the style at the current insertion point,
and you can use the dropdown to apply another style. To determine what
styles appear in the list and in what order, open the Styles task pane
(Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom.

You might also like the little floating dialog you get by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+S.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.


Wow! Thanks, Jay. Yes, that's what I need. Now, why isn't that there by
default? Oh well. Both your suggestions are brilliant.

[Greg Maxey]

Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

On Apr 24, 8:19 am, Jay Freedman wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:02 -0700, PeterBBailey

wrote:
In earlier versions of Word, any style name used was displayed at the top
left of the screen. Now, I see a few styles shown at the top right of the
screen, but, if I'm in a style that's not one of those shown, where do I know
what style it is? Yes, I can right-click and see what it is, but, that's kind
of silly. Why isn't there any easy way to know what style you're in? I work
for a publishing company and we get hundreds of Word documents from the
outside world, and, I need to determine their structure to some degree. It's
frustrating to not be able to see the styles used.
Thanks.

There are several solutions to this, but here's the one I think is the
most elegant: The style dropdown that was on the Formatting toolbar in
earlier versions of Word is still available and can be put on the
Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

Right-click the QAT and choose Customize. In the dialog, set the
"Choose commands from" box to "Commands not in the Ribbon". Select the
command that says "Style" and has a dropdown icon on the right side.
Click the Add button and click OK.

The toolbar will always show the style at the current insertion point,
and you can use the dropdown to apply another style. To determine what
styles appear in the list and in what order, open the Styles task pane
(Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) and click the Manage Styles button at the bottom.

You might also like the little floating dialog you get by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+S.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Beth Melton]

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
oups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Jay Freedman]

Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?

--
Jay

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
roups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?


--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Beth Melton]

I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and
then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
groups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described, but
I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to draft.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and
then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
egroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Beth Melton]

Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough info
to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

- Create a new document
- In Word Options make sure "Prompt to update style is turned on"
- Switch to Print Layout view if necessary
-Type =rand() and press Enter
- Select the first paragraph
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "No Spacing"
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "Heading 1"
- Hover over "No Spacing" in the gallery
- Then hover over "Heading 1" in the gallery

You may need to repeat the hovering back and forth a few times before you
encounter the error. Turn off "Prompt to update" and the error no longer
occurs.

Note it can occur with any two styles - I just pick two next to each other
to make the repro steps easy. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described, but
I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to draft.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and
then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
legroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Yep. I see it now... even happens with the /a switch. Cute.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough info
to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

- Create a new document
- In Word Options make sure "Prompt to update style is turned on"
- Switch to Print Layout view if necessary
-Type =rand() and press Enter
- Select the first paragraph
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "No Spacing"
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "Heading 1"
- Hover over "No Spacing" in the gallery
- Then hover over "Heading 1" in the gallery

You may need to repeat the hovering back and forth a few times before you
encounter the error. Turn off "Prompt to update" and the error no longer
occurs.

Note it can occur with any two styles - I just pick two next to each other
to make the repro steps easy. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described,
but I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to
draft.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and
then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it.
:-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
glegroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Beth Melton]

Since the "Prompt to Update Styles" option is off by default how are you
reproducing it when you use the /a switch to start Word?

Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since styles are
so easy to update these days.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Yep. I see it now... even happens with the /a switch. Cute.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I started Word with the /a switch, turned Prompt to Update on, then
proceeded. In Safe mode, which is different, you can't access the Advanced
settings, so it's impossible to test the bug in Safe mode.

I usually keep Prompt to Update turned off. For updating styles, I've had
RedefineStyle assigned to Ctrl+Shift+D ever since that command was
introduced back around WinWord 97 (I think... but I don't recall). The nice
thing about it is that it even works on Normal. It's a real time saver when
designing templates.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Since the "Prompt to Update Styles" option is off by default how are you
reproducing it when you use the /a switch to start Word?

Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since styles
are so easy to update these days.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Yep. I see it now... even happens with the /a switch. Cute.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

[Beth Melton]

Okay....I guess I'm not following why you expected the issue to not occur
when you started Word using the /a switch and then selected the Prompt to
Update Style option. After all, that's what is causing the error to occur
and if it's enabled you'll encounter the bug.

Perhaps you're trying to figure out the logic behind the issue? The
underlying cause is since Live Preview does change the format of the text in
the document. and when you hover over various styles, Word "thinks" the
format for the paragraph changed, but then discovers it doesn't and throws
the error.

(FWIW, this bug was filed with all of the details quite some time ago.)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I started Word with the /a switch, turned Prompt to Update on, then
proceeded. In Safe mode, which is different, you can't access the Advanced
settings, so it's impossible to test the bug in Safe mode.

I usually keep Prompt to Update turned off. For updating styles, I've had
RedefineStyle assigned to Ctrl+Shift+D ever since that command was
introduced back around WinWord 97 (I think... but I don't recall). The
nice thing about it is that it even works on Normal. It's a real time
saver when designing templates.

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Since the "Prompt to Update Styles" option is off by default how are you
reproducing it when you use the /a switch to start Word?

Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since styles
are so easy to update these days.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Yep. I see it now... even happens with the /a switch. Cute.

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I had no such expectation, per se. But, my first impulse when replicating an
error is to strip away as much of my own settings as I can to see if the
error still occurs. It's part of my normal routine when testing Word errors
of any kind. shrug

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Okay....I guess I'm not following why you expected the issue to not occur
when you started Word using the /a switch and then selected the Prompt to
Update Style option. After all, that's what is causing the error to occur
and if it's enabled you'll encounter the bug.

Perhaps you're trying to figure out the logic behind the issue? The
underlying cause is since Live Preview does change the format of the text
in the document. and when you hover over various styles, Word "thinks" the
format for the paragraph changed, but then discovers it doesn't and throws
the error.

(FWIW, this bug was filed with all of the details quite some time ago.)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I started Word with the /a switch, turned Prompt to Update on, then
proceeded. In Safe mode, which is different, you can't access the
Advanced settings, so it's impossible to test the bug in Safe mode.

I usually keep Prompt to Update turned off. For updating styles, I've had
RedefineStyle assigned to Ctrl+Shift+D ever since that command was
introduced back around WinWord 97 (I think... but I don't recall). The
nice thing about it is that it even works on Normal. It's a real time
saver when designing templates.

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Since the "Prompt to Update Styles" option is off by default how are you
reproducing it when you use the /a switch to start Word?

Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since styles
are so easy to update these days.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Yep. I see it now... even happens with the /a switch. Cute.

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

[Tony Jollans]

What I get when I do that is that it throws me out of Word - no error
message, no nothing, just leaves Word running as it was and switches to
another application (whatever Alt+Tab would have given me). I had the same
thing happen yesterday in a different situation (but I shouldn't really
hijack the thread).

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough info
to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

- Create a new document
- In Word Options make sure "Prompt to update style is turned on"
- Switch to Print Layout view if necessary
-Type =rand() and press Enter
- Select the first paragraph
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "No Spacing"
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "Heading 1"
- Hover over "No Spacing" in the gallery
- Then hover over "Heading 1" in the gallery

You may need to repeat the hovering back and forth a few times before you
encounter the error. Turn off "Prompt to update" and the error no longer
occurs.

Note it can occur with any two styles - I just pick two next to each other
to make the repro steps easy. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described,
but I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to
draft.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and
then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it.
:-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
glegroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Greg Maxey]

Beth,

Yes that is what I was referring to. The Google Groups here on my PC
wasn't working for two days. That is why I didn't see any or repond
to replies. Thanks.

Greg

On Apr 24, 4:13 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote:
I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error", and then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

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"Greg Maxey" wrote in message

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Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

[Beth Melton]

Gotcha! Makes perfect sense now. :-)

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http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I had no such expectation, per se. But, my first impulse when replicating
an error is to strip away as much of my own settings as I can to see if the
error still occurs. It's part of my normal routine when testing Word errors
of any kind. shrug

[Beth Melton]

That *is* odd. Do you also have Word 2003 installed? I kept encountering odd
errors, similar to what you described, when I had Office 2003 and Office
2007 installed. It was never enough that I could pinpoint the issue. I don't
know if it was caused by Office 2003 or if there were some stray bits from
one of the beta versions but when I wiped it all and installed only the RTM
version of Office 2007 I don't encounter the oddities anymore.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
What I get when I do that is that it throws me out of Word - no error
message, no nothing, just leaves Word running as it was and switches to
another application (whatever Alt+Tab would have given me). I had the same
thing happen yesterday in a different situation (but I shouldn't really
hijack the thread).

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

- Create a new document
- In Word Options make sure "Prompt to update style is turned on"
- Switch to Print Layout view if necessary
-Type =rand() and press Enter
- Select the first paragraph
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "No Spacing"
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "Heading 1"
- Hover over "No Spacing" in the gallery
- Then hover over "Heading 1" in the gallery

You may need to repeat the hovering back and forth a few times before you
encounter the error. Turn off "Prompt to update" and the error no longer
occurs.

Note it can occur with any two styles - I just pick two next to each
other to make the repro steps easy. :-)

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described,
but I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to
draft.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt. :-)

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt
to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error",
and then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it.
:-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
oglegroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Tony Jollans]

Interesting. I do have both 2003 and 2007 installed but this machine has
never been near a beta.

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
That *is* odd. Do you also have Word 2003 installed? I kept encountering
odd errors, similar to what you described, when I had Office 2003 and
Office 2007 installed. It was never enough that I could pinpoint the
issue. I don't know if it was caused by Office 2003 or if there were some
stray bits from one of the beta versions but when I wiped it all and
installed only the RTM version of Office 2007 I don't encounter the
oddities anymore.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
What I get when I do that is that it throws me out of Word - no error
message, no nothing, just leaves Word running as it was and switches to
another application (whatever Alt+Tab would have given me). I had the
same thing happen yesterday in a different situation (but I shouldn't
really hijack the thread).

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

- Create a new document
- In Word Options make sure "Prompt to update style is turned on"
- Switch to Print Layout view if necessary
-Type =rand() and press Enter
- Select the first paragraph
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "No Spacing"
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "Heading 1"
- Hover over "No Spacing" in the gallery
- Then hover over "Heading 1" in the gallery

You may need to repeat the hovering back and forth a few times before
you encounter the error. Turn off "Prompt to update" and the error no
longer occurs.

Note it can occur with any two styles - I just pick two next to each
other to make the repro steps easy. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described,
but I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to
draft.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt.
:-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt
to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error",
and then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it.
:-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
ooglegroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Beth Melton]

Then it may have been Word 2003 - or it could have been reformatting too.
;-)

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Interesting. I do have both 2003 and 2007 installed but this machine has
never been near a beta.

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
That *is* odd. Do you also have Word 2003 installed? I kept encountering
odd errors, similar to what you described, when I had Office 2003 and
Office 2007 installed. It was never enough that I could pinpoint the
issue. I don't know if it was caused by Office 2003 or if there were some
stray bits from one of the beta versions but when I wiped it all and
installed only the RTM version of Office 2007 I don't encounter the
oddities anymore.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
What I get when I do that is that it throws me out of Word - no error
message, no nothing, just leaves Word running as it was and switches to
another application (whatever Alt+Tab would have given me). I had the
same thing happen yesterday in a different situation (but I shouldn't
really hijack the thread).

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:

- Create a new document
- In Word Options make sure "Prompt to update style is turned on"
- Switch to Print Layout view if necessary
-Type =rand() and press Enter
- Select the first paragraph
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "No Spacing"
- From the Quick Styles gallery apply "Heading 1"
- Hover over "No Spacing" in the gallery
- Then hover over "Heading 1" in the gallery

You may need to repeat the hovering back and forth a few times before
you encounter the error. Turn off "Prompt to update" and the error no
longer occurs.

Note it can occur with any two styles - I just pick two next to each
other to make the repro steps easy. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I can't seem to reproduce that error. I think I did what was described,
but I get only correct/expected behavior, no error, and no switch to
draft.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I thought you did, I could have sworn you were part of the previous
discussion about this...

If you'd like to file a bug on it too, it definitely couldn't hurt.
:-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hmm, that's a good one. I hadn't seen it before, but I can reproduce
it here. Maybe I should file a report, too?


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:13:03 -0500, "Beth Melton"
wrote:

I'm not Jay, but if you're referring to the oddity of having "Prompt
to
Update Style", the message box stating "Word encountered an error",
and then
switching to Draft view, I haven't heard anything but I reported it.
:-)

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
news:1177430115.686827.223460@u32g2000prd. googlegroups.com...
Jay,

Have your heard of any action being taken to resolve the bug where
Word throws and error if you are scanning the QuickStyle pane with
"Live Preview" enabled and mouse over the current applied style?

[Greg Maxey]

Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since
styles are
so easy to update these days.

I don't know that much about styles because I rarely use Word for
anything. I just like figuring out how it works ;-)

Is there a way to open the same dialog that "Prompt to update style"
provides? I like how it gives you the option to update the style to
match the selection or to reapply the style all in one place.




On Apr 25, 3:36 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote:
Since the "Prompt to Update Styles" option is off by default how are you
reproducing it when you use the /a switch to start Word?

Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since styles are
so easy to update these days.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ:http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine:http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site:http://mvps.org/

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in . ..



Yep. I see it now... even happens with the /a switch. Cute.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog:http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web:http://www.herbtyson.com

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Sorry Herb, I wasn't trying to provide exact repro steps, just enough
info to see if that's what Greg was referring to. Here you go:- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

[Beth Melton]

That's the only dialog box I know of that provides you with the choice. In
previous versions I used the Styles pane and selected "Update style name
to match selection" when I wanted to update the style. In Word 2007 you can
also right-click the style in the Quick Style gallery and use the Update
command. (There are several places you'll find this command.)

What I find handy about using this method is it will update the style and
apply it if it's not already applied. I also use this for removing direct
formatting in documents and replacing it with styles. First I'll use the
"Select text with Similar formatting command" (available when you
right-click a paragraph - depending on the version you're using it's under
the Styles menu when you right-click), and then use the Update Style
command. If the user was consistent with their direct formatting this
process is fairly quick. :-)

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
ups.com...
Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since
styles are
so easy to update these days.

I don't know that much about styles because I rarely use Word for
anything. I just like figuring out how it works ;-)

Is there a way to open the same dialog that "Prompt to update style"
provides? I like how it gives you the option to update the style to
match the selection or to reapply the style all in one place.

[Greg Maxey]

Hmm...that's too bad. I hope they get that bug resolved or that I can
figure out how to bring up that dialog with VBA. I like it.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Beth Melton wrote:
That's the only dialog box I know of that provides you with the
choice. In previous versions I used the Styles pane and selected
"Update style name to match selection" when I wanted to update the
style. In Word 2007 you can also right-click the style in the Quick
Style gallery and use the Update command. (There are several places
you'll find this command.)
What I find handy about using this method is it will update the style
and apply it if it's not already applied. I also use this for
removing direct formatting in documents and replacing it with styles.
First I'll use the "Select text with Similar formatting command"
(available when you right-click a paragraph - depending on the
version you're using it's under the Styles menu when you
right-click), and then use the Update Style command. If the user was
consistent with their direct formatting this process is fairly quick.
:-)
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
ups.com...
Personally, I leave the Prompt To Update Styles turned off since
styles are
so easy to update these days.

I don't know that much about styles because I rarely use Word for
anything. I just like figuring out how it works ;-)

Is there a way to open the same dialog that "Prompt to update style"
provides? I like how it gives you the option to update the style to
match the selection or to reapply the style all in one place.