Re: Best Word trick I've learned this week

["Cassandra Greer" <cassandra -at- greer -dot- de>]

ehem excuse me - what I really meant was it works on WordXP - sorry of the
potential confusion and the fact that I don't think I answered the question.

Cass :)

> Somebody asked if this worked in Word2003 - it does :)
> 
> Cass :)
>   
> > ...I just passed this on to a friend who's all cranky about having to
> work
> > with Word, and it made her happy, so I thought I'd share it with all of
> > you:
> > 
> > On Word's Tools>Options>View tab, at Outline and Normal options, there's
> a
> > field for "Style area width". If you set that to 1 inch (or something
> > greater than zero), when you are in Normal or Outline mode you can see,
> > listed down the side of the page, the styles all the paragraphs are in.
> > Once the Styles area is >0, you can drag the bar to adjust the size. 
> > 
> > Styles view has been very helpful while I'm reformatting docs from
> > SMEs--you know those insidious docs that kinda look like the doc you
> sent
> > the SME, but is all a big ugly bunch of hand-formatted
> Normal-style--hope
> > it helps someone else out...
> > 
> > Helpfully,
> > Mandy