Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word questions Message-ID: <42744@bbn.COM> Date: 14 Jul 89 13:07:35 GMT References: <927@key.COM> <307@zooks.Morgan.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Distribution: usa Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 35 In article <307@zooks.Morgan.COM> jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes: |James Preston writes: | | MS-DOS Word had style sheet definitions for characters. | |You need to make sure the font gets saved when you define the style for |this to work on a Mac. Select the paragraph marker and then format it |using the Character menu, then save the style ... notice that in the |definition of the style at the bottom it mentions the font ... What I think he meant was a style which applies to character sequences, not just paragraphs-as-wholes. I.e. define a style called Emphasis (equal say to "+bold") and apply it to a selected few phrases in the document. Redefine the style to be say "+italic" and the chosen phrases would have their "boldness" toggled back to the paragraph's style and their "italicness" toggled to the opposite of the paragraph's style; the style of the paragraph itself and the remainder of the text in the paragraph would otherwise be unaffected. (I have no idea of whether DOS Word works like this; this is how I think Mac Word should work.) |Also, about global styles, you can save your favorites into the system |style file, but I forget how. Hit the Set Default button in the Define Styles dialog box. It will save the style into the current Settings file ("Word Settings" in the Word application folder or the System folder is what gets chosen when you start up Word). /JBL UUCP: levin@bbn.com (new) or {backbone}!bbn!levin (old) INTERNET: levin@bbn.com POTS: (617) 873-3463 "The night was"