RE: Style format does not work
- From: Blacksmith Tim <BlacksmithTim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:18:00 -0800
I've been running into something similar.
My particular problem is that I repeatedly assign styles to paragraphs and
they just don't take.
For example I took some things from an intranet blog for a class and was
going to rework them for a hard copy.
I tagged the headings "Heading 1" via search and replace (there was common
wording) and then changed "Normal" to a different font, and justified.
That's all I wanted to do.
If I follow this thread right I have to remove the formatting of the whole
document and basically start from scratch to reformat it. And the way to do
that is a keyboard command that I just found out about.
I've been a Word user since 2.0 (1991?) and I've been working with Word
Processors since 1981, so I'm hardly new to this. (And getting very
frustrated by the process.
So I guess my questions are:
Is there a way to force it to reapply an updated style to all occurances in
a document?
Is there a way to clear formating for an entire document (or at least "paste
without formatting")?
It seems to me that if styles will sometimes not be updated, then what's the
point of styles anyway?
And in the for what it's worth category ...
I'm back to grad school, I bought the Student Version of Office 2007 because
I didn't want to "mess with it" and there were rumors that older versions of
Office would not work well with Vista. What a *shock*. More of a shock than
2.0 to 6.0.
I'm currently digging around for my Office '97 disks to see if it will run
with Vista because:
1) I'm presently keeping my old Win98 desktop with Word '97 running so that
I can track down the old menu shortcuts *because it's quicker to figure it
out in the old Word on the other computer and then use the keyboard shortcuts
in 2007 than to try and figure out how to do things I've been doing for years
with the ribbon.
2) If I have serious document work to do I'm going back to that old machine
because I can rework a serious writing project faster and easier with '97.
(Yes, I have prepared a rough on my 4 week old laptop, in Word 2007, saved it
in the compatible format, and transferred it back to the Win98 box with
Word'97 to finish up because it's more efficient.)
3) RMR does not seem to exist for Word 2007 and no one will talk about it
except one post where someone says "it works mostly". Maybe I'm one of the
few who used it, but I'm working on becoming a teacher, and I can make
documents that Reader can *read* (text to voice or whatever it's called ) to
people with vision imparements. I've had people who have speech impairments
use it to make presentations. It's *useful* ... and I can do it on my old
machine but not my new one.
4) I just don't have time to sort out the "easier, more efficent ribbon". I
spent about 4 hours working through the tutorials and some FAQs ... I'm not
an idiot. But I need to spend more time actually writing my documents than
figuring out how to make them look like they used to.
Sorry for the rant, but I don't know where else to post that.
Tim
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