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Subject:Re: update all styles in Word 2000? From:"David O'Brien" <OBrien_David_P -at- cat -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:44:51 +1000
David and list,
First, the Update all styles that I use is when I add a template, not when I'm
in the doc body and you reapply a format. You get that little dialog that
says "Do you want to update the style defn." or something. I only use that
when I'm updating the template itself; the rest of the time I wish it would
just go away :-(
Second, Ctrl+Space appears to work when a para is selected (or the document),
however, as mentioned by Geoff, character formatting gets wiped :-(
Fortunately I don't use a lot of that so it'd be quicker I think to reapply
the styles and then check for missing char styles. I'll do a bit of
testing...
thanks to all
David
(who is still working on keeping all these docs in Frame/xml and getting Word
out of the equation :-) For those who followed that other thread, I can pass
the DTD to the developers and they can use it in IntelliJ without trouble.
Still working on the BAs, etc...)
El Jueves 04 Diciembre 2003 00:00, escribió:
> The "Update all styles automatically" means that if you change a style
> definition it is updated in the template. This is generally a mistake. It
> can mean that when you apply a style and accidentally make a change rather
> than use the style as is that the style is changed in the template and you
> cannot get it back.
>
> The feature does not do what you think it does.
>
> I believe the way to get back to the styles in the attached template is to
> select then Ctrl-Space. Test this out on a small selection of text, because
> I haven't done it in a while.
>
> David Locke
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