Re: Redefine Normal style

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On 8/7/09 7:08 AM, in article
timstreater-614BD6.12080107082009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tim Streater"
<timstreater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <C6A23FB2.1DD7%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Both excellent questions :-)

1) No. Body Text has no special qualities. The only reasons to use it are:
A) That's the style Documentation Professionals would use for that purpose,
and
B) It's built-in, so you do not have to create it.

If you use the built-in style names, you will have an easier job
re-purposing your text to the web, since most web editors expect the
standard style set and will format accordingly. Of course, you adjust the
styles to your formatting preferences.

Body Text begins life as a copy of the Normal style, with all its properties
based upon the Normal style. As you change each property, you break its
chain of inheritance to Normal (which is a good thing: otherwise any change
to Normal would change your Body Text).

I'm slightly puzzled here. I was working on my doc in which all the
styles derive from Normal. For some reason, Normal appeared to be set to
Language: US English. I changed Normal to be UK English, but at least
some of the inherited styles stayed as US English (e.g. the headings).
That is, if I listed a heading style, it now looked like:

Normal + Language: US English, Font: 16pt ....

Why did the inherited styles insist on retaining the language setting
they had previously inherited from Normal?

Cheers

When one style ( the "child") is based on another (the "parent") it does
indeed inherit all properties. However, if any of the child's properties are
made different from the parent's it breaks the connection for that
particular attribute. IOW, if the parent & child are identical for
everything but font size, the child will re-inherit any attribute changes
made to the parent *except* for font size.

Based on your description, the Language formatting of the text involved was
apparently applied directly rather than by way of a change to Normal, so
when Normal's Language was changed it didn't affect that text. Otherwise the
Style would have been indicated simply as Normal rather than
Normal+Language... The + indicates that the Normal style was used but the
attributes following the + deviate from what the Style specifies.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac


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