Re: problem with character styles

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You can sometimes avoid the problem if you use a font for the headings that looks bold (such as "Arial Black").
Last time I said that I got flamed from here to hell because somebody thought "Arial Black" was an ugly font for headings, but you may have other fonts installed that work... "Arial Black" just happens to be available on most Word installations.

Regards,
Klaus


"Shauna Kelly" wrote:
> Hi Andy
>
> >it's like the 2 bolds cancel each other out;
>
> Exactly. So, define your "emphasised" character style as italic, not bold
> italic.
>
> If this seems either frustrating or counter-intuitive, consider that
> applying styles is giving Word an instruction. You can see the definitions
> of styles in the Styles and Formatting pane, by hovering over the name of
> the style. And you can see that it is expressed as an instruction. So your
> style1 might be "Normal + Arial + Bold + 16pt", or some such.
>
> A character style is always applied on top of a paragraph style. All
> character styles are defined as something like "Default Paragraph Font +
> Bold + Red". That means "The font of the underlying paragraph format + Bold
> + Red".
>
> So if style "emphasised" is "Default Paragraph Format + Italic", and you
> apply it to some text in paragraph style1, you'll get "Normal + Arial + Bold
> + 16pt + Italic".
>
> And you're right: the on/off properties like bold, italic, underlined etc
> act as toggles. So "Normal + Arial + Bold + Bold" displays as un-bold.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
>
>
> "Andy Fish" <ajfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eq7LE1QRFHA.2348@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thanks for the response Terry. The problem is that I don't see how I can
> > avoid direct formatting.
> >
> > e.g. say I have paragraph styles called style1 and style2 where style2
> > includes bold.
> >
> > now say I have a character style called "emphasised" which is bold,
> > italic, underlined
> >
> > If I take a paragraph in style2 and then apply the emphasised style to a
> > word within it, the word ends up not bold, so it's like the 2 bolds cancel
> > each other out; this is the behaviour I'm trying to avoid.
> >
> > "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
> > news:eScDeeQRFHA.648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Andy
> >>
> >> The answer is that you should avoid using direct formatting otherwise
> >> conflicts with toggled emphasis such as bold, underline and italics will
> >> happen. You can remove the direct character formatting by using
> >> Ctl+Spacebar
> >> to reset a character of Ctrl+Q to reset a paragraph. Then apply the new
> >> style to the characters or paragraph.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Terry Farrell - Word MVP
> >> http://word.mvps.org/
> >>
> >> "Andy Fish" <ajfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:OmH$o4ORFHA.3444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> : Hi all,
> >> :
> >> : Say I have a character style that is something like "font: arial 8 pt
> >> bold".
> >> : If I apply it to a word in paragraph where the paragraph style already
> >> : includes bold, the text becomes not bold, i.e. it seems to toggle it.
> >> :
> >> : Is there anyway to set up my character style so that it means "not
> >> bold"
> >> : rather than "toggle boldness"
> >> :
> >> : TIA
> >> :
> >> : Andy
> >> :
> >> :
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
.

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