Using Field/Styleref in Headers ...

[Sharon R.]

Hi all,

I am using Field > Styleref to automatically include the content of a
paragraph style in my document headers (typically user guides). However, I am
now working on a regular (but long) document and I want to use a similar
function to include a style reference that is character style rather than
paragraph style i.e. it is the content of a form field. This does not work
using Field/Styleref for obvious reasons but ... is there a function that
will do this for me?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment!

SR

 

[Stefan Blom]

It should work perfectly fine to use a character style in a STYLEREF field.
In fact, this is specifically recommended for use in form documents. What
happens when you try?

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Microsoft Word MVP


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[Sharon R.]

Hi Stefan,

I get "Error! No text of specified style in document". When I add a
paragraph mark as part of the style it works a treat but ... it's not what I
want.

Thanks for any help you can give.

S.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that you will have to apply the character style to some text--or to the
spaces of a text form field, assuming that this is a protected form.

What version of Word is this?

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[Sharon R.]

Your earlier response gave me the encouragement to investigate further. I was
just looking at the formatting when this came in. You're absolutely right ...
I had a mixture of paragraph and character in the style. I changed to just
character and it works like a dream. Hope this might be a good lesson to
others so don't mind that it happened.

(BTW, it's Word 2003. Ne'er shall I venture forth into the pastures of 2007.
Not yet anyway!) :-(

Thanks a lot for .

S.

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm glad you got it sorted.

Note that when adding a character style to the text at the end of a
paragraph Word tends to apply the style to the paragraph mark even if it
wasn't selected. Of course, this causes the paragraph mark to be displayed
by the STYLEREF field, which is annoying. To work around the issue, select
the paragraph mark (in the document text), and then press Ctrl+SpaceBar.
(This particular issue is also described in the following article which has
more on the STYLEREF field:
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm.)

Indeed, if you are happy with Word 2003 there is no need to upgrade.