[dba-Tech] MS Word Styles Gallery

John Bartow john at winhaven.net
Mon Jun 6 13:51:10 CDT 2011


Thanks, I'd appreciate any help you can send. This is sucking my time up and
there is not enough profit in this job as it is.

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 1:42 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS Word Styles Gallery

<http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/how-to-apply-your-favorite-word-s
tyles-with-a-single-click/4910>

<http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/quickly-save-a-new-style-in-word-
with-these-shortcuts/4992>

<http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/office-challenge-why-are-some-of-
the-style-pane-options-disabled/5036>

And I have a rough draft of a five tips piece on the Styles window that I
submitted in April, but can't find online yet. I'll send it to you privately
if you want it. I "think" there's a template issue involved too -- you have
to flag a setting to save the style change to your Normal.dotx file.

Susan H.



>I want to know too. I have found this alleged feature quite 
>frustrating, but  perhaps this is due to my ignorance of how to apply 
>the technique.
>
> A.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
>
>> RE: MS Word 2010
>>
>> I have some documents that all need to be formatted the same. Last 
>> week I set up some formatting styles and list numbering styles. I 
>> used "Save selection as a new Quick Style" and all was well. I did 
>> one Chapter and reviewed it with the client. I loaded the chapter 
>> onto his computer and the formatting styles and line styles showed up 
>> in the list. He approved everything. So I get some more "cleaned" 
>> documents to applying the formatting to today and I open the chapter 
>> from last week and none of the custom formatting styles are listed in 
>> the styles gallery. The list styles are listed in the list style 
>> gallery but I'm back to square one with the formatting..
>>
>> Does anyone know what the deal is with these formatting styles and 
>> the "Styles Gallery"? Specifically - how do I get these to be persistent?
>>
>> John B
>>
>>
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