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Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 --- First (and Last) Impressions
Keywords: Bugs
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Date: 1 May 89 16:42:57 GMT
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In article <8842@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>One of the things I have wanted in Word is to be able to define a
>style that affected only the selected text rather than just the
>paragraph.  For example, it would be useful to have a "Figure
>Reference" style that could be used within a normal text paragraph,
>and be able to change all figure reference formatting by just changing
>the style.
>
>Can someone perhaps tell me if a) there is a way to do this in 3.x and
>earlier versions, or if not b) is it in 4.0?

There is no way to do this in Word 3.0.

I don't believe that there is any way to do this in Word 4.0 (I'm sure
Chuq will correct me if I'm wrong.

However, there IS a way to do this in Nisus (which will read, incidentally,
Word 3.0x files which aren't Fast Saved).  Nisus has a "user-defined text
styles" option on which the user can do searches and formatting changes,
just as Jonathan describes.

Still waiting for the upgrade which includes footnoting, etc., though...

John Heckendorn
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