Replacing styles??

[Bo Rasmussen]

Hi,

When I try to replace e.g. normal style with body text using the
find/replace dialog, The first paragraph of sections with normal styles does
not update the Font. It seems that the selection has the body text style but
has kept the font from the normal style! Suceeding paragraphs look alright!!
Is it me or Word.......

BTW : Using Word '97

Regards
Bo Rasmussen

 

[JulieD]

Hi bo

tip i learnt from suzanne barnhill the other day - click in the misbehaving
paragraph and press ctrl & spacebar - this will remove any "direct"
formatting (formatting that's been placed over a style) ... now it should
look like body text?

let us know if this worked
Cheers
JulieD

 

[Bo Rasmussen]

Hi Julie,

That's a good tip - only problem is that I need to do this in a macro ;o)
The case is that older documents contain the normal style, so copying from
these documents gets messy. I want to replace the normal style automatically
by a macro. As I'm not very much into VBA I've simply recorded a
find/replace session where I try to replace all normal styles with body
text.

Regards
Bo Rasmussen

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can use Find and Replace to do this, too. Search for the style and
replace with Default Paragraph Font.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Bo Rasmussen]

Hi Suzanne,

Ctrl-Space does not change the style - it simply sets the font!!! If I
change the font of body text style it does not update the pasted in text. So
I guess I have to do both - i.e. replace the style and then the font.

Regards
Bo Rasmussen

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I was assuming the text was already in the desired style. The F&R I
recommended merely resets the font for paragraphs in that style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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