Word ­ Altering a style

[Francis Hookam]

Word ­ Altering a style

I¹m accustomed, in Mac Word and PC Word 2000, to changing a style in one
paragraph and then, if I want confirm the change, I simply click in the
style box and then Return/Return which opens the do-you-want-keep-changes
dialog and confirms.

Now I also have a PC with Word 2002 and this does not happen. Annoyingly a
change is shown in the style box as Style-so-and-so +
what-ever-the-change-was! As far as I can see the only way of changing the
style is to

Please show me how to get back to the old easy way of changing a style ­ ok,
it never worked like that on Normal but it did on all the others I used,
both Word styles and custom ones of my own

Thanks

Francis Hookham

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Francis:

It's a settable option in Tools>Options>Edit. Enable "Prompt to update
style".

However, you will find it to your long-term benefit to put some work into
reading up the help on the Task Pane and experimenting with that.

It actually does provide a much easier way of updating styles. The Task
Pane has an "Update style to match selection" facility and a "Select all
similar" that are new, and far more flexible than the old ways.

They're in the Formatting Palette in Mac Word 2004 too.

Cheers

Word ­ Altering a style

I¹m accustomed, in Mac Word and PC Word 2000, to changing a style in one
paragraph and then, if I want confirm the change, I simply click in the style
box and then Return/Return which opens the do-you-want-keep-changes dialog and
confirms.

Now I also have a PC with Word 2002 and this does not happen. Annoyingly a
change is shown in the style box as Style-so-and-so +
what-ever-the-change-was! As far as I can see the only way of changing the
style is to

Please show me how to get back to the old easy way of changing a style ­ ok,
it never worked like that on Normal but it did on all the others I used, both
Word styles and custom ones of my own

Thanks

Francis Hookham

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Francis,

Now I also have a PC with Word 2002 and this does not happen. Annoyingly a
change is shown in the style box as Style-so-and-so +
what-ever-the-change-was! As far as I can see the only way of changing the
style is to

You seem to be asking WinWord questions on the Mac ng?
Anyhow, Word 2002 made a ton of interface changes from WinWord 2000--some of
them made it to the Mac, but only in Word 2004, I think. Here are some
links re WinWord 2002 that should help, the first one directly answers your
comment re the style box.
http://shaunakelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/CustomizingWord2002.htm

DM