Style Not Being Accepted

[gawarner]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel One of my styles -- Heading 2 -- is set up as Arial-14 pt-Bold-Italic. However, I have several different lines (technically paragraphs) that when I identify them and choose Heading 2, those lines instead remain as Heading 1 (which is the same attributes except not bold). I don't seem to be able to change them to Heading 2, for some reason. If I choose these same lines and try to make them bold, they do not accept that either.

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

Turn on your Show/Hide button so you can see your paragraph marks. Then you
should be able to see why.

Chances are, one or more of those lines is NOT, in fact, a paragraph.

Put a paragraph mark at the end of it, it's the paragraph mark that stores
the formatting for a paragraph.

If your line does not end in a paragraph mark, there's nowhere Word can
store the formatting, so it can't apply the style.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
One of my styles -- Heading 2 -- is set up as Arial-14 pt-Bold-Italic.
However, I have several different lines (technically paragraphs) that when I
identify them and choose Heading 2, those lines instead remain as Heading 1
(which is the same attributes except not bold). I don't seem to be able to
change them to Heading 2, for some reason. If I choose these same lines and
try to make them bold, they do not accept that either.

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[gawarner]

Thanks, John. I did that and the paragraph mark was there. Still the line would not accept the style, nor would it accept Bold. Finally, I was able to it by deleting, then pasting in a line that was Heading 2, and then changing its text to what it needed to say. That issue, though, makes me wonder if my doc is corrupted in some way.

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

I was wondering that myself. Yes, it is quite likely that the paragraph
itself was corrupt. This kind of behaviour is one sign of document
corruption.

Let's hope it was the only paragraph in the document that was bad.

If it wasn't, come back and we'll give you the fixes (which can be
laborious).

Cheers

Thanks, John. I did that and the paragraph mark was there. Still the line
would not accept the style, nor would it accept Bold. Finally, I was able to
it by deleting, then pasting in a line that was Heading 2, and then changing
its text to what it needed to say. That issue, though, makes me wonder if my
doc is corrupted in some way.

--

The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]