Please decipher this

[newreader]

I have a doc that has the following style definition

Heading 1 , Heading1 , Char Char1 Char , Headiung 1 Char Char Char
Char Char + Space After 12 pt

The effect of the above on a heading like this

IV Project Charter

The roman numeral IV is higlited in a certain color and the text
"Project Charter" is in Bold font .

Can someone explain the meaning of the style definition ? Assuming my
question makes sense .

THanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Newreader,

I have a doc that has the following style definition

Heading 1 , Heading1 , Char Char1 Char , Headiung 1 Char Char Char
Char Char + Space After 12 pt

The effect of the above on a heading like this

IV Project Charter

The roman numeral IV is higlited in a certain color and the text
"Project Charter" is in Bold font .

Can someone explain the meaning of the style definition ? Assuming my
question makes sense .

The question makes sense, sort of. But what you show in the style
definition doesn't contain the formatting you mention explicitly.

What you're seeing is a so-called "linked style". Word has
automatically generated a number of additional styles. This occurs when
you select some text, then apply a paragraph style. Word decides you
want to have a character style with the same formatting as the
paragraph style and creates a the new character style with the same
name as the paragraph style plus "Char". Apparently, this linked style
was re-applied over a paragraph, and then that over text...

In short, it's a mess that you're going to have trouble cleaning up
because you won't be able to delete it. (Word won't let you delete
Heading 1, or anything associated with it.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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