paragraph style

[anna]

I created 3 new paragraph styles, A, B, C. I'd like to
apply them in this order: A->B->C->B->A->.... I
have "Style for following paragraph" set to B for A and C.
How can I set B to be followed by A or C alternately?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can't short of a macro. Bill Coan created a macro for me that allows me
to press Alt+Enter and get a paragraph of the same style instead of the one
set as the following style. You might ask in one of the word.vba NGs about
how to code this.

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[Jonathan West]

I created 3 new paragraph styles, A, B, C. I'd like to
apply them in this order: A->B->C->B->A->.... I
have "Style for following paragraph" set to B for A and C.
How can I set B to be followed by A or C alternately?

You can't. Best you can do is set B to be followed by one of the styles, and
then define a keyboard shortcut for the other, so that it is just a keypress
to get the style you want.

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Jonathan West - Word MVP
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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Suzanne,

You can't short of a macro. Bill Coan created a macro for me that
allows me to press Alt+Enter and get a paragraph of the same style
instead of the one set as the following style. You might ask in one
of the word.vba NGs about how to code this.

Alt + Enter could be "set" to do what the normal Enter key does, and
subsequently change the "Style for following ..."

Something for the vba-guys, in any case

Greetinx
..bob
...Word-MVP
....but, true enough, one special key to trigger this would be needed, so
it's up to the user which one (s)he prefers ...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What I should have said was that Bill gave me the macro, and I (at his
suggestion) assigned the Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut to it. When I press
Enter, I get the "Style for following paragraph," as expected. When I press
Alt+Enter, I get a new paragraph in the same style as the previous one. I do
a lot of Q&A docs, and sometimes the Qs are not followed by As but by more
Qs. If there are a *lot* of A-less Qs, then I modify the style; if there are
just a few, I use this shortcut.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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