On 3/14/2011 8:38 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
* 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?
By selecting the level, I mean clicking the appropriate icon in the Styles and Formatting dialog
(say, for the paragraph styles). Then in the same dialog, use the drop-down list at the bottom and
select the Applied Styles option.
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?
That would be one way, but basically anything that changes an attribute that can also be changed by
using an appropriate style -- in other words, any formatting change you make that does *not* involve
applying a style. For instance, selecting text and clicking the Bold icon is direct formatting.
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.
I can't remember if Word even had the concept of styles back then -- even now, they're not central
to the document model as they are with OOo. Glad she's reviving her novel, and it's nice that there
are a lot more publishing options now. But tell her we won't bite if she asks the questions herself!
I hope you have some projects of your own in mind, too.
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
You're very welcome!
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