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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie, post: 6877322"] Hi Michael: OK, I can finally test this. Linked styles ARE implemented. But the fact that they are linked is HIDDEN!! I am sorry to mislead you. When I last looked at this briefly, I saw it could partially-apply Heading styles and thought "Ah hah!" they've implemented Word 2003/7's Linked Styles. Well, they have, but they've kept it a big secret! 1) If you create a style, say "Style 1", and apply a font and an indent. 2) Then pick a different style (say: Body Text) and define a different font and indent 3) Then apply Style 1 to a paragraph 4) Then select three words within the Style 1 paragraph and apply Body Text Only the three words will change, AND If you click in the three words, the style will show as "Body Text". If you click outside the three words, the style will show as "Style 1". If you change the font colour of Body Text, the text in the paragraph that has Style 1 will change. 5) If you select the paragraph mark and apply Body Text, the whole paragraph will change and so will the indent. 6) If you just click into the paragraph so your selection is an insertion point, and apply a different paragraph style, only the parts of the paragraph that do not have Body Text applied will change. So Body Text has been created as a Linked Style which is behaving as a Character Style in that paragraph. So: Linked Styles are there in Word 2008. They just didn't make it as far as the user interface, so we can't see them. So we can't see what we're doing (sigh...). However, Linked Styles will do what you want without having to do anything else, once you understand how they work. To an extent you will be flying blind, because in Word 2008 you cannot see the Character component of a linked style. The key is to create your base style as a Paragraph style, with its indents and spacing as well as all its font properties. * If you then apply it to a selection that does not include a paragraph mark, it will apply as a linked character style and you will get only the character properties. * If you apply it to the whole paragraph, or with only an insertion point instead of a selection, it will apply as a Paragraph style and you will get the indents as well. If I think about it, this is probably a better implementation of the mechanism than Word 2007's. In point of fact, the user never needs to know whether a style has a linked style or not. The character properties of the linked style can never be different from the character properties stored in the paragraph style, so there is no point in differentiating. The automation coder needs to know, because you need to know whether you have a paragraph in context or just a string for some operations. But presumably you can test the "LinkedStyle" property in AppleScript the same as you could in VBA if VBA were there :-) So I think this is actually an improvement. No longer does the user see two indicators against the one style name, and no longer to they see the horrid "char char" appended to their style names... Hope this helps -- Don't wait for your answer, click here: [URL]http://www.word.mvps.org/[/URL] Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd [URL]http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/[/URL] Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name [/QUOTE]

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