Re: Word: changing paragraph styles
Ummm... Al? Assuming that those are *character* styles you're describing
below, that method happens to be correct.
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From: Al Geist
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:56 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Word: changing paragraph styles
Surely, you aren't asking for consistency in Word? You might look at whether some former writer modified the styles for those individual words beyond. I had problems once when I took over a project in which at least five writers were previously involved. One of them created a different style for italics, bold text, bold italic text, and anything else that wasn't standard body text. It was a mess and took a lot of extra work to sort things out.
Yer right... (My second sentence should have said "individual words manually" instead of "Individual words beyond" whatever that means...) This is what happens when you try to multitask without enough coffee flowing through the veins.
What I meant to say was they manually created styles beyond those already defined. In other words, instead of selecting a Heading 1, which was defined as Arial+Bold+18 pt, they manually set Normal to Arial+Bold+Italic for that instance of Heading 1. Best of all, they didn't stop there....whomever the writer was did the same manually changes in body text, subheads, captions, etc. So, I had a document where some of the writers/editors used Word Styles and one or more did not. Also, some of the writers created a new style every time they wanted to change fonts or text style, instead of checking to see if the style was already defined. It was fun and they paid me well...and I can imagine that, since it's been three years, that the document is back in the same sad shape it was before I cleaned it up.
Al
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