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John Harris:Maine
I'm submitting this for a peer that is on vacation. I'm submitting his notes
and will clarify any items as necessary. We are upgrading our application
from Word 97 to Word 2003 and have noticed some inconsistencies in behavior.
Below is a sample that demonstrates the problem we are having.
Scenario Overview:
The application of a paragraph-style to a paragraph that also contains some
text that has a character-style applied. Our specific issue is around the
use of hidden text. When the user goes to apply a style to a paragraph that
contains "hidden" text, the hidden text is no longer hidden. (This was not
the case in Word 97)
Scenario Detail:
Paragraph/Character Style Problem:
1. Select Tools | Options | View and uncheck hidden text under formatting
marks.
2. Set up two paragraph styles (characteristics are not important) and a
character style based on the underlying properties of the paragraph and has
an effect of 'hidden'.
3. Apply the first paragraph style to one half of the document and the
second paragraph style to the remaining text.
4. Then apply the character style (hidden) to selected text within either of
the first two styles. Be sure to select some text that is at the beginning
of the paragraph. (Although it is not necessary to cause this problem, that
is the way we use it the majority of the time.)
5. Next, select the text that has the paragraph-style, and also contains the
text with character-style (of hidden text), then apply an alternate
paragraph style. This can be done by many methods with varying results.
Most of the time the text with character style (hidden) becomes visible.
The ways that we have attempted are:
a.) Select text by left clicking with the mouse and
dragging to the end, then selecting the new style from the drop down list on
the formatting toolbar.
b.) Using the mouse and moving to the far left edge to
get the right-upward pointing arrow to select one or multiple lines of text
and then applying the new style from the drop down list on the formatting
toolbar.
c.)Using the format painter, by single and double
clicking on the icon and then applying the formatting by dragging across
selected text and going to the far left edge to use the right-upward pointing
arrow.
Note: We have also tried selecting text by using the Ctrl+Shift in
combination with the arrow, home, end, page up and page down keys. This
seems to give us the best results, but not consistently.
and will clarify any items as necessary. We are upgrading our application
from Word 97 to Word 2003 and have noticed some inconsistencies in behavior.
Below is a sample that demonstrates the problem we are having.
Scenario Overview:
The application of a paragraph-style to a paragraph that also contains some
text that has a character-style applied. Our specific issue is around the
use of hidden text. When the user goes to apply a style to a paragraph that
contains "hidden" text, the hidden text is no longer hidden. (This was not
the case in Word 97)
Scenario Detail:
Paragraph/Character Style Problem:
1. Select Tools | Options | View and uncheck hidden text under formatting
marks.
2. Set up two paragraph styles (characteristics are not important) and a
character style based on the underlying properties of the paragraph and has
an effect of 'hidden'.
3. Apply the first paragraph style to one half of the document and the
second paragraph style to the remaining text.
4. Then apply the character style (hidden) to selected text within either of
the first two styles. Be sure to select some text that is at the beginning
of the paragraph. (Although it is not necessary to cause this problem, that
is the way we use it the majority of the time.)
5. Next, select the text that has the paragraph-style, and also contains the
text with character-style (of hidden text), then apply an alternate
paragraph style. This can be done by many methods with varying results.
Most of the time the text with character style (hidden) becomes visible.
The ways that we have attempted are:
a.) Select text by left clicking with the mouse and
dragging to the end, then selecting the new style from the drop down list on
the formatting toolbar.
b.) Using the mouse and moving to the far left edge to
get the right-upward pointing arrow to select one or multiple lines of text
and then applying the new style from the drop down list on the formatting
toolbar.
c.)Using the format painter, by single and double
clicking on the icon and then applying the formatting by dragging across
selected text and going to the far left edge to use the right-upward pointing
arrow.
Note: We have also tried selecting text by using the Ctrl+Shift in
combination with the arrow, home, end, page up and page down keys. This
seems to give us the best results, but not consistently.