Styles

[Guest]

Hi,

I am looking for an Option setting that does the following when using Styles:

I am in a paragraph in which the first sentence is a Heading Style (with
automatic paragraph numbering). After that first sentence, the rest of the
paragraph is in Normal Style (no Styles separator). I place my cursor at the
end of the paragraph (Normal Style), and type a Hard Return to start a new
paragraph ...

That new paragraph then comes up in the Heading Style. So I type my
heading text. Then, as soon as I type a period, the Heading Style turns off,
and changes back to Normal Style.

This works at any level of heading or paragraph numbering - as soon as I
type a hard return, the next paragraph comes up in the Heading Style of the
paragraph before it, and as soon as I type a period, the Heading Style turns
off and changes to Normal.

I have watched someone do this, but they didn't know which Option it was
that set up Styles to do this.

Many thanks,
Rosemary

 

[Stefan Blom]

To get a particular style each time you press Enter, just choose it in
the "Style for following paragraph" box for the relevant style (in the
Modify Style dialog box).

However, changing styles in the middle of a paragraph, after inserting a
period, would require a macro. Ask in a programming newsgroup. The
difficult part is to determine *when* to trigger this; I'm guessing that
you don't want to apply a heading to any text preceded by a period.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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