List styles usefulness and backward compatibility.

[mariorivera1974]

I chose to deactivate features not compatible with word 95/6.0. I
don't understand the reason why I am not prevented from using list
styles which were not present in Word 6.0 . Why is that?

Also, I was trying to find what is the use for list styles; would they
be useless, considered you can use the famous method suggested by many
MVPs (i.e. with styles).
Has this message:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
been discussed/answered somewhere else?

I don't understand the strange tangle of paragraph styles for which
you specify outline properties (from within the style formatting
dialogs) and the paragraph styles you can associate with each level
from within the configuration dialogs of a list style.
Let's forget about directly applying formatting, because, for what I
understood, that must never be done.

Thanks in advance.
Mario

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Those who know something about numbering have found list styles anomalous
and unsatisfactory. You're much better off setting up lists as described in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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all may benefit.

 

[mariorivera1974]

Thanks Suzanne. I've given up on list styles (I am getting
increasingly surprised at how this program has been incoherently
developed).
I am still having problems understanding the setting which prevents
one from using features introduced after a certain Word release (Word
6.0/95 in my case).
It looks like Word informs me correctly that I can't use middle or
bottom vertical alignment within cells, but fails to stop the use of
List Styles and the "Don't add space between paragraph of the same
type" feature in style ->format -> paragraph (just to name those I run
across).
I suppose that, in order to reproduce their functionality, they may
get converted behind the scenes into something compatible with
previous versions (which wouldn't be possible for cell alignment)?
I cannot make meaningful tests because I don't have word 6.0
installed.
Comments welcomed.
Mario

PS = Does anyone know if List Styles are being anyhow
fixed/documented/changed with Word 2003?

 

[Tom Smith]

See if there's anything in Tools, Options, Compatibility. T

 

[mariorivera1974]

See if there's anything in Tools, Options, Compatibility. T

I know about the compatibility things, but they state quite clearly
what they do de-activate. Why is there another setting linked to
compatibility under tools -> options -> save? There is a setting there
to de-activate features introduced after word 6.0/95 or 97. And it is
that one which prevents me from bottom aligning text inside cells for
instance.
Can someone make this clearer?
TIA
Mario

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Vertical alignment in table cells was introduced in Word 97; it is therefore
not available if you disable features introduced after Word 6.0/95.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Tom Smith" <tom.smith68@[remove]> wrote in message

See if there's anything in Tools, Options, Compatibility. T

I know about the compatibility things, but they state quite clearly
what they do de-activate. Why is there another setting linked to
compatibility under tools -> options -> save? There is a setting there
to de-activate features introduced after word 6.0/95 or 97. And it is
that one which prevents me from bottom aligning text inside cells for
instance.
Can someone make this clearer?
TIA
Mario

 

[mariorivera1974]

Vertical alignment in table cells was introduced in Word 97; it is therefore

not available if you disable features introduced after Word 6.0/95.

Suzanne,
I know that. You must have missed my previous post. Here is a quote:
"I am still having problems understanding the setting which prevents
one from using features introduced after a certain Word release (Word
6.0/95 in my case).
It looks like Word *informs me correctly* that I can't use middle or
bottom vertical alignment within cells, but fails to stop the use of
List Styles and the "Don't add space between paragraph of the same
type" feature in style ->format -> paragraph (just to name those I run
across)."

Comments welcomed.
Mario