style issue I still do not understand

[Stephanie Stowe]

Hi. I have a document which was created by someone else. I want to use the
built in styled (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) for hierarchically organiuzing
the doc. Right now, my highest level heading is this:

"Heading 1,Heading 1 Char"

I want a Heading 1 style that contains the formatting currently within the
paragraph. I do not want my style called "Heading 1, Heading 1 Char." I want
it called "Heading 1."

I got Format, Styles and Formatting. I select Show All Styles. Plain old
Heading 1 is not listed. I cannot create a Heading 1 since it is a built in
style.

How do I get my plain old Heading 1 style back and get rid of this one?
Also, how was this one created?

Thanks

S

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Stephanie,

This problem generally comes from having applied "Heading 1" to a selection of
text, rather than to an entire paragraph (or when the cursor was simply
blinking in a paragraph). There's another thing that can cause it, but only in
the original release of Word XP; that was fixed in SP1.

Once you have this, it's not easy to get rid of; you need to use a macro that
will unlink Heading 1 Char from Heading 1 so that it can be renamed
and deleted. You'll find such a macro on my website.

I have a document which was created by someone else. I want to use the
built in styled (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) for hierarchically organiuzing
the doc. Right now, my highest level heading is this:

"Heading 1,Heading 1 Char"

I want a Heading 1 style that contains the formatting currently within the
paragraph. I do not want my style called "Heading 1, Heading 1 Char." I want
it called "Heading 1."

I got Format, Styles and Formatting. I select Show All Styles. Plain old
Heading 1 is not listed. I cannot create a Heading 1 since it is a built in
style.

How do I get my plain old Heading 1 style back and get rid of this one?
Also, how was this one created?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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