Wow! Incredible. I've been manually formatting for the past three
months. This is amazing. Glad to know it's a commonplace occurence.
Hello Matt [?],
Glad your problem has been solved!
If you are on a 12" PowerBook, you might like to consider replacing the
Formatting palette with your own toolbars that contain only the buttons you
really need (replacing is the wrong word: you can still have the Formatting
palette available and you can show/hide your toolbars as you prefer).
All my needs are met on my PowerBook by one row of buttons at the top and
one at the bottom (they could of course be placed elsewhere). People who,
like me, use Word intensively tend to do the same (in fact I picked up the
idea here).
Detailed notes on the arrangement, including screenshots, are under the
heading 'Buttons, transferring between toolbars' on page 36 of "Bend Word to
Your Will", a free download from
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm
There are some long-term advantages, too, of using personalized toolbars
rather than modifying the default Normal toolbars. You can easily transfer
your personal toolbars to another template or document at some future date.
That's important because, unfortunately, Word does not permit you to copy to
a different template any default toolbars that you have customized. So when
you become comfortable with creating your own templates for special purposes
(and if you work on long or complex documents and want to be efficient, you
will), if you have modified the default Standard and other toolbars you will
be unable to take advantage of the modification work you have done on them.
More importantly, if/when your Normal template becomes corrupted (not a rare
occurrence, unfortunately) you will have to re-configure the default
toolbars from scratch, whereas it's easy to copy your personal toolbars over
from a bad template using the Organizer.
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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