Intercept Styles and Formatting pane mouse click

[larrysulky]

I want to intercept the automatic application of a style when it is
selected from the Styles and Formatting pane. My hope is to detect
whether the text selection includes a partial paragraph and if it
does, prevent the application of a paragraph style to it (because that
would create a hybrid paragraph/character style). Can anyone give me
some tips on how to do this interception?
TIA

 

[Klaus Linke]

I want to intercept the automatic application of a style when it is
selected from the Styles and Formatting pane. My hope is to detect
whether the text selection includes a partial paragraph and if it
does, prevent the application of a paragraph style to it (because that
would create a hybrid paragraph/character style). Can anyone give
me some tips on how to do this interception?

Hi Larry,

I don't think that is practicable. If you update to Word2007, it has a
checkbox at the bottom of the styles pane to prevent the creation of linked
styles.
OTOH, many built-in styles in Word2007 are linked styles out of the box.

Klaus

 

[Stefan Blom]

But note that if you "Limit formatting to a selection of styles" (in the
Protect Document task pane of Word 2003), you cannot apply a *paragraph
style* to part of a paragraph. Logically, this should also prevent the
creation of linked styles.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[larrysulky]

Hi Larry,

I don't think that is practicable. If you update to Word2007, it has a
checkbox at the bottom of the styles pane to prevent the creation of linked
styles.
OTOH, many built-in styles in Word2007 are linked styles out of the box.

Klaus

Thanks, Klaus. Unfortunately I cannot mandate Word 2007 to all the
remote freelance users I have to support. But Stefan's recommendation
in a related post may help.
--larry