Charles
Using a different font to create a stylish letterhead is a very acceptable
practise. In our business documentation, we use a different font for the
Front Page! Many of the publications that I have read on typographical
design suggest a serif font for body text and a sans serifed font for
titles. Generally, this does seem a good combination if the fonts are chosen
correctly. With a few exception, sans serif fonts scale up in size far
better than a serif font.
Terry
message :I believe that serif fonts are supposed to be easier to read in body text.
:
: I print my documents and want them to look a bit different, so I do use
: other fonts, especially in my letterhead.
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: Charles Kenyon
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: "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
: : > Klaus
: >
: > Well there are font snobs around!
: >
: > I read an article in The Times a few weeks back: the bigot (I mean
: > journalist) thought Arial was a boring font only used by boring people
and
: > that anyway using Comic Sans was a moron (or similar words).
: >
: > Well our company uses Arial for all its technical documents: why would
: > anyone object to being presented a technical document in Arial? It is
the
: > content that is important; the reader shouldn't be distracted from the
: > content by using a stylistic layout with a fancy font. Arial is easy to
: > read
: > and doesn't distract from the content. One of the reasons he cited it as
: > being boring is because every Tom, Dick and Harry has it on their
: > computer:
: > technically that's a huge advantage. What a tosser!
: >
: > To add insult to injury I took his attack on Comic Sans personally. I
use
: > Comic Sans for my <<personal>> emails: its an informal and easy to read
: > font
: > suited to personal use. I wouldn't write a business email or technical
: > document in that font. The journalist needs a good kicking!
: >
: > Terry Farrell
: >
: >
: > : > You can sometimes avoid the problem if you use a font for the headings
: > that
: > looks bold (such as "Arial Black").
: > Last time I said that I got flamed from here to hell because somebody
: > thought "Arial Black" was an ugly font for headings, but you may have
: > other
: > fonts installed that work... "Arial Black" just happens to be available
on
: > most Word installations.
: >
: > Regards,
: > Klaus
: >
: >
: > "Shauna Kelly" wrote:
: >> Hi Andy
: >>
: >> >it's like the 2 bolds cancel each other out;
: >>
: >> Exactly. So, define your "emphasised" character style as italic, not
bold
: >> italic.
: >>
: >> If this seems either frustrating or counter-intuitive, consider that
: >> applying styles is giving Word an instruction. You can see the
: >> definitions
: >> of styles in the Styles and Formatting pane, by hovering over the name
of
: >> the style. And you can see that it is expressed as an instruction. So
: >> your
: >> style1 might be "Normal + Arial + Bold + 16pt", or some such.
: >>
: >> A character style is always applied on top of a paragraph style. All
: >> character styles are defined as something like "Default Paragraph Font
+
: >> Bold + Red". That means "The font of the underlying paragraph format +
: >> Bold
: >> + Red".
: >>
: >> So if style "emphasised" is "Default Paragraph Format + Italic", and
you
: >> apply it to some text in paragraph style1, you'll get "Normal + Arial +
: >> Bold
: >> + 16pt + Italic".
: >>
: >> And you're right: the on/off properties like bold, italic, underlined
etc
: >> act as toggles. So "Normal + Arial + Bold + Bold" displays as un-bold.
: >>
: >> Hope this helps.
: >>
: >> Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
: >>
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
: >>
: >>
: >> : >> > Thanks for the response Terry. The problem is that I don't see how I
: >> > can
: >> > avoid direct formatting.
: >> >
: >> > e.g. say I have paragraph styles called style1 and style2 where
style2
: >> > includes bold.
: >> >
: >> > now say I have a character style called "emphasised" which is bold,
: >> > italic, underlined
: >> >
: >> > If I take a paragraph in style2 and then apply the emphasised style
to
: >> > a
: >> > word within it, the word ends up not bold, so it's like the 2 bolds
: >> > cancel
: >> > each other out; this is the behaviour I'm trying to avoid.
: >> >
: >> > "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
: >> > : >> >> Andy
: >> >>
: >> >> The answer is that you should avoid using direct formatting
otherwise
: >> >> conflicts with toggled emphasis such as bold, underline and italics
: >> >> will
: >> >> happen. You can remove the direct character formatting by using
: >> >> Ctl+Spacebar
: >> >> to reset a character of Ctrl+Q to reset a paragraph. Then apply the
: >> >> new
: >> >> style to the characters or paragraph.
: >> >>
: >> >> --
: >> >> Terry Farrell - Word MVP
: >> >>
http://word.mvps.org/
: >> >>
: >> >> : >> >> : Hi all,
: >> >> :
: >> >> : Say I have a character style that is something like "font: arial 8
: >> >> pt
: >> >> bold".
: >> >> : If I apply it to a word in paragraph where the paragraph style
: >> >> already
: >> >> : includes bold, the text becomes not bold, i.e. it seems to toggle
: >> >> it.
: >> >> :
: >> >> : Is there anyway to set up my character style so that it means "not
: >> >> bold"
: >> >> : rather than "toggle boldness"
: >> >> :
: >> >> : TIA
: >> >> :
: >> >> : Andy
: >> >> :
: >> >> :
: >> >>
: >> >>
: >> >
: >> >
: >>
: >>
: >
: >
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