Re: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project?

["Pro TechWriter" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Sure, it's pretty easy. Create the new style (mine is Normal-P, but
you can use Body or BodyText or something like that).

>From the Word menu bar, click Edit and point to Replace to access the
Fina and Replace popup window.  Then, in the Find and Replace window
do the following:

1. Click More to expand the window.
2. Click in the Find What field (placing the cursor in the field selects it)
3. Click Format and select Style.
4. In the Find Style popup, select Normal and click OK.
5. Click in the Replace with field, and do the same as steps 3 and 4,
except select the *new style* you created first.

Now click Replace. I usually do these one at a time, but you can do
Replace All if you like.

Hope this helps.

PT


On 12/7/07, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> On Behalf Of Claire Conant said:
> > I learned a long time ago never to
> > use Normal style for anything. everyone has Normal set differently on
> > their computer and if someone opens your doc on a different computer,
> it
> > will not look for them how it looked for you.
>
> [...]
> > My recommendation is never, ever use the Normal style, never select
> > automatically update (as Geoff recommended) and never base a style on
> > Normal in the style catalog.
>
> Is there a way, if you've already got docs with everything based on
> Normal, to swap for some other home-baked style?
> I've been avoiding it because there's really never a good time to run a
> 300-page document through a plain text editor and then bring it into
> Word for from-scratch application of all formatting.
> But if I could keep my dozens of existing styles and simply tell them
> that they are now based on .... "notnormal" style instead of on
> "Normal", that would be a good thing.
>
> > And, it's good your company is getting FrameMaker 8. I wholeheartedly
> > support that.
>
> I've got FM 7 but I've only got 2 docs that I can still update in Frame.
> The rest are WebHelp (done in Flare) or else docs that need to pass
> through other hands than mine... so they're done in Word. (Well, I tell
> them that it's Word, though I do some of them in OpenOffice...   :-)  )
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