Scope of "style based on"

[mikepope]

Sorry, this seems like something that should be easy to find, but I haven't
had any luck. When you you create a "cascading" style -- a style that where
"Style based on" is set to another style -- how can you specify explicit
formatting that is "in addition to" the inherited style rather than
overriding the inherited style? For example:

Style1 is indented .5
Style2 is based on Style1 and should be indented an additional .25".

If I set an explicit .75" indent for Style2, changing Style1 has no effect
on the indent in Style1. That makes sense, since any local styling should
take precedence. But is there a way to indicate a "relative" (e.g.)
indentation for Style2 so that it will always just be .25" more than Style1?

Thx!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowStylesCascade.html, but I
think you're expecting too much.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

I reckon he's expecting too much, too - but it would be a pretty cool feature
don't you think? Maybe I'll post a "Suggestion for Microsoft"... Oh wait...
Never mind... ;-D
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[mikepope]

Thanks, this is great. I wasn't really expecting that it would work, as per
the normal precedence of a local style over an inherited one. But I thought
that there _might_ have been a workaround; it seemed like one place where an
"additive" or "relative" style setting (rather than just an override) would
sort of make sense. But I could not find any such thing, so I thought I'd
ask. It's certainly happened before that I've overlooked a feature.