Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rex!cleeland From: cleeland@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word questions Message-ID: <911@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Date: 15 Jul 89 16:19:06 GMT References: <927@key.COM> <307@zooks.Morgan.COM> Reply-To: cleeland@rex.UUCP (Chris Cleeland) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Lines: 42 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 ... > While this is true, this is not what James is talking about. In DOS Word, a style may be applyed to an arbitrary number of characters within a paragraph, while the paragraph retains its overall style. In Mac Word, only an entire paragraph can be assigned a style. Since I've never use DOS Word much, I don't find this to be a deficiency, just a wish (sure would be nice!). But, I can understand the chagrin of Mr. Preston upon finding out that Word DOESN'T support that feature in the Mac version. Microsoft, I like your product very much, have been using it since v1.0, but it really would be nice if things would be supported across the machines. >Also, about global styles, you can save your favorites into the system >style file, but I forget how. This is done by clicking the DEFAULT button in the Define Styles dialog box (or is it a window...it's hard to keep track with MWord :-) ). If later you want to remove it from the Default Style sheet, select the name of the style in the Define Styles window, then choose Cut from the Edit menu. Word will pop up a dialog box asking you if the syle should be deleted from the document. Next it will ask if it should be removed from the default style sheet. > >/jordan Hope this clarified things a little -- Thanks Chris Cleeland, Tulane University ADDRESS: cleeland@rex.tulane.cs.edu Disclaimer: "I'm a student -- I can't afford to buy one!"