* Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> [110314 17:14]: > > Looks pretty good, but realize that the paragraph styles and font > selections are not necessarily visible -- they can be removed from > the toolbar displays, and many people do so, to save screen space > and (especially for character formatting like fonts, bolding, etc.) > to avoid the tendency to use direct formatting*. A common > characteristic is that when the Styles and Formatting dialog is > visible, you can easily identify the style applicable to the current > cursor location (at any level -- page, paragraph, character, frame, > or list) by Understood. And F11 is a shortcut.. > selecting the level and the Applied Styles subset; it Not sure what you mean by "selecting the level and the Applied Styles subset". What is the procedure to make this selection?
> will be highlighted. That's easier than trying to look in, say, All > Styles for a match. In general, you probably want to start with > Automatic Styles to select common appropriate styles for new > material. > > * Direct formatting trumps all the style information and means that > you lose the ability to modify your whole document consistently if > you want to, say, change the font for a particular kind of text > element. Do I understand Direct formatting is when one right-clicks in the paragraph and makes a selection from the menu? > It can get very messy! <grin> I am dealing with 15 documents/chapters of a novel written by my wife Barbara originally on one of the earliest versions of Word in 1995. > If you want to keep documents alive > for future use, it's really good to train yourself to use styles > rather than direct formatting. Right on! Thanks Barbara -- Tim and Barbara tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
