Start to learn about styles - it will make your life so much easier
than if you apply formatting directly.
Check out
Creating A Template - Styles:
http://mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2/Styles.h
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Yup - different beastie. Reveal codes works well in a linear
document where a change persists until another change is made. Word,
on the other hand, uses nested objects - e.g., each document is a
container for hundreds of objects, some of which are paragraphs
which are containers in their own right.
Take a look at:
How Word differs from Word Perfect:
http://mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm
Well, no, that's not exactly true - try View/Reveal Formatting, then
click on the paragraph you want to get info about.
Take a look here:
Is There Life After "Reveal Codes"?:
http://mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm
and, you can spend months assimilating the good advice here:
Bend Word to Your Will:
http://mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm
JE:
Thanks for the great answer. I going to print out "Bend word to your will",
but the other three links did not work in Safari, I just got a blank white
page where with the gray toolbar on top which did not work.
I was able to paste the urls into Explorer ok. But strangely, the spooling
for "How word differs from WordPerfect" printed nice and fast, but the other
two took too long to spool for some reason. Just thought you should know.
(could be my technical problems, I'm on cable modem OS. 10.2.6)
In any case. My document, indeed has some styles. It had some larger fonts
with colors placed above lines with smaller black 12pt font. That's why I
did not want to edit out formats for the whole document, I just wanted to
make the whole document black ink. But maybe that is a good tool, if I keep
getting the weird thing I'm getting where on certain lines that were once a
certain color or size, that have now been changed to a new font size and
color, the old style pops up!
So I should go "edit, clear style" , with that certain situation. But why
am I seeing old colors pop up? I remember in WordPerfect, once you changed
anything to a sentence or word, it would never pop back to a previous style
later, would it?
What's your personal opinion about WordPerfect's system of reveal codes etc.
I looked at Word's "view, reveal formatting" and don't find in nearly as
intuitive or easy to follow as reveal codes. I think Word is great
software, but boy I really do miss WordPerfect reveal codes. I switched to
Word two years ago to be on a Mac. What's your personal opinion?
