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From: jsp@key.COM (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word questions
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Date: 14 Jul 89 20:30:47 GMT
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Reply-To: jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston)
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In article <42744@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
}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.)

Yes, that is exactly what I meant, and it is how DOS Word works.  I received
a very nice email from Paul Davis, Program Manager for Word on the Mac (wow,
I never expected to get personal attention direct from the source!).  He
said that they thought that character styles were a "high-end feature" that
would be rarely used, but that they might have to re-think that.

}|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).

Yes, I knew this but it only applies to documents that you create thereafter.
My problem is that I have a bunch of existing documents.  Changing the
defaults does not change the existing settings in those documents.
Unfortunately, the answer that I have gotten from Paul as well as other
Word gurus is that I'm SOL.

--James Preston