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Re: Best Word trick I've learned this week

Subject: Re: Best Word trick I've learned this week
From: lyndsey -dot- amott -at- docsymmetry -dot- com
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:28:28 -0500

This nifty feature has been around since at least Word 6, so I would be surprised if MS got rid of it as they tend to grandfather everything, whether a feature or a bug. Aside from the benefits described by Mandy, you can click on the tag name to select the entire paragraph. It doesn't let you drag the para elsewhere though, which would be nice.
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Lyndsey Amott
www.docsymmetry.com
Winnipeg, MB R3G 2J3
Cassandra Greer writes:


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





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