word 2007 - slightly OT

[Happy Trails]

I's not word programming, but the other word groups have scarcely any
posts.

In word 2007, is there an easy way (or ANY way) to view, hopefully
always like 2003 showed, the style of the current paragraph?

Or maybe a macro to do this?

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

The Word General forum gets a lot of traffic, so you could probably post
questions in there and get quick replies. However, I'll try to give you an
answer all the same.

In the 'Styles' Group on the 'Home' tab, click on the Dialog Box Launcher
button in the lower right corner. This will display the 'Styles' Task Pain,
which works very much like the one in Word 2003. The main difference is that
it's not "dockable", but it does show you the style of the current
selection.

In addition, the style of the current paragraph should be highlighted
automatically in the 'Styles' Group, although the highlight _can_ be a bit
subtle.
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[Happy Trails]

The Word General forum gets a lot of traffic, so you could probably post
questions in there and get quick replies. However, I'll try to give you an
answer all the same.

My news reader program is showing almost nothing for it! Maybe that's
another problem.

In the 'Styles' Group on the 'Home' tab, click on the Dialog Box Launcher
button in the lower right corner. This will display the 'Styles' Task Pain,
which works very much like the one in Word 2003. The main difference is that
it's not "dockable",

It is very appropriate to use the word "pain", and not "pane" - I hope
you did that on porpoise! I know the uselessness of that list, hence
my post.

but it does show you the style of the current selection.

Not - or not always, or only if you take the trouble to select
part/all of the paragraph first? I haven't used 2007 enough yet to
have deciphered all its rules.

In addition, the style of the current paragraph should be highlighted
automatically in the 'Styles' Group, although the highlight _can_ be a bit
subtle.

Should be, but many times is not, hence my post.

What's further irritating is that you have to fart around and scroll
thru the stupid overly-large icon crap just to see if word is actually
going to list your current style there when the way it was shown in
2003 (and EVERY PREVIOUS WORD VERSION) was so simple, useful, and
conserving of space. I think the marketing idiots have finally
displaced most of the remaining actual utility in word.

My question still stands. You haven't told me anything new or useful,
but thanks for responding anyway.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word General is an orphan forum that is no longer hosted on the Microsoft
server. Those who access the Microsoft server directly will not see any
messages in that group and so will not respond to questions posted there.
The popular forums for general questions are word.docmanagement and
word.newusers - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm

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[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

Sorry. That's all I have. Word is as it is, and as my dad always said, "you
dance with who brought you..."

(And the use of "Word General" was made in reference to the web interface
for the MSFT discussion groups, where it's listed as "Word General
Questions". In a newsreader it is, as Graham pointed out, listed as
word.docmanagement.)
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup.

Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no
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[Happy Trails]

Sorry. That's all I have. Word is as it is, and as my dad always said, "you
dance with who brought you..."

Okay - I found it on Shauna Kelly's web site.

"STYLE" is one of the options you can add to your personal tool bar
from the list of "things that the stupid ribbon doesn't show" or
whatever they call that particular list.

When you add it to your own "quick . . ." what ever they call that
diddly thing, you then get the old style combo box which does
everything the old one did but it isn't very wide and you cannot widen
it. It's exactly what I wanted. I thought there might be something
there to do that, but I was too busy at work where the version of word
2007 lives that I have access to, to keep looking for it.

So now you and your MVP - hahaha - friends know also.

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

I hope you don't ever come here asking for help again mate 'cause you're not
very bloody likely to get any.

 

[Happy Trails]

I hope you don't ever come here asking for help again mate 'cause you're not
very bloody likely to get any.

What a sorehead!

I hope you have better advice for any others less capable than myself.
If all you have ever given others is the babble you posted for me, why
would anyone ever come here for help anyway?

Mate.