Style-Shifter

[David Harrison]

I'm using Word 2000 and have been experimenting with the
ASK and IF fields to create my own single source
documents. (Fortunately in a family of 6 manuals, 80% of
the content is common).
However, one thing that I have noticed is that all my
styles are changing size. Even though the main text is
set to 11pt in the Style format it appears as 10.5 in the
text. Trying to change the style to 11pt is no good
becuase Word thinks that it already is 11pt. Headings 1,
2 and 3 are similarly appear 0.5 pt smaller that set in
style.
The worse culprit is my index which, despite being set to
Times 9pt, appears at 9, 10.5 and even 12.5pt. Sequential
index entries are varying in size from one line to the
next! It looks awful. I've checked to see whether it may
be linked to small entries coming from normal text and
larger lines from Heading text but there's no obvious
correlation.
Has anyone any idea what causes style, or rather font
size-shifting like this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

XE fields will pick up direct formatting applied to text. Provided the text
selected when the index entry is created are in the Default Paragraph Font,
the font size is irrelevant. To remove direct formatting from the XE fields
themselves, display the fields (display Hidden text), select each field, and
press Ctrl+Spacebar. You can skip from each field to the next quickly by
setting Browse by Field as the browse object and using the arrows below the
vertical scroll bar (F11 will also take you to the next field).

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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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