Tutorial on Styles Dialogue Boxes

[Guest]

Where can I find a, THOROUGH, tutorial on how to use the varied dialogue
boxes within Styles, as applied to my documents?

I've been through, Microsoft, Styles tutorials; far too basic.

 

[Anne Troy]

Hi, Larry. I'd be interested in writing one, but I'm not sure where you
might be having difficulty. This is all I have so far:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_style_in_microsoft_word.htm But
I do want to write an "extreme" tutorial on Styles.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

In reviewing problems that, users (including me) appear to be having, stems
from lack of a thorough understanding how to use Styles.

Therefore, I'm looking for an in depth tutorial on Styles.

My nemesis at the moment, is, creating Styles 1 through... and the mess I'm
creating.
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Thanks,
Larry

Hi, Larry. I'd be interested in writing one, but I'm not sure where you
might be having difficulty. This is all I have so far:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_style_in_microsoft_word.htm But
I do want to write an "extreme" tutorial on Styles.
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Anne Troy]

Okay. Let me see what I can do right now. Look for it within a couple of
hours. It'll be under Tutorials:
http://www.officearticles.com/tutorials/
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

In reviewing problems that, users (including me) appear to be having,
stems
from lack of a thorough understanding how to use Styles.

Therefore, I'm looking for an in depth tutorial on Styles.

My nemesis at the moment, is, creating Styles 1 through... and the mess
I'm
creating.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See these articles:

How to apply a style in Word
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ApplyAStyle.html

How to modify a style in Word
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html

How the Styles and Formatting pane works in Word 2002 and 2003
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html

Shauna Kelly’s article on styles
http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/column14.asp

How styles in Word cascade
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowStylesCascade.html

Why use Word’s built-in heading styles?
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/UseBuiltInHeadingStyles.html

Why does text change format when I copy it into another document?
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/FormatOfTextChanges.html

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

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[Anne Troy]

Okay, Larry. Try this:
http://www.officearticles.com/tutorials/an_extreme_tutorial_on_styles_in_microsoft_word.htm
and this (you might want to read this one first):
http://www.officearticles.com/word/understanding_styles_in_microsoft_word.htm
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

In reviewing problems that, users (including me) appear to be having,
stems
from lack of a thorough understanding how to use Styles.

Therefore, I'm looking for an in depth tutorial on Styles.

My nemesis at the moment, is, creating Styles 1 through... and the mess
I'm
creating.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Anne:

http://www.officearticles.com/tutorials/an_extreme_tutorial_on_styles_in_micro
soft_word.htm

We're actually desperately in need of a nice "what/why/how" on Character
Styles, and your excerpt here does pretty well--except then you direct
people to the instructions to create a paragraph style and I think that
might confuse some? I would suggest you rewrite "create a character style"
and keep it in the tutorial.

and this (you might want to read this one first):
http://www.officearticles.com/word/understanding_styles_in_microsoft_word.htm

From article:

I rarely use Add to template unless I am working on a document that was
created from a template, and realize I forgot to italicize the font or
something, but this does add the style to the template as well as the document
on which you are working. If your document is not based on a template, you'll
want to avoid this setting.

*ALL* documents are based on a template...

 

[Anne Troy]

Okay, girlfriend. No problem. I'll do it! Watch for it in the next hour
or so.
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Anne Troy]

Okay, I added pretty much the same content to both the "Understanding..."
and the tutorial. Don't hesitate to tell me other stuff we need, Daiya.
Someone told me that there is NOWHERE online with (at least worth
mentioning) Word videos. Do you know if that's true? I've got Camtasia, just
need to master it!
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks all! Great sources, I'll take the time to draw from all of them.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm and the links from that page.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Guest]

Anne,
Charles guided me to,
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm#Overview.

Under Styles
Scroll down about 3/4 of the way,

When I attempt this Find & Replace exercise called, "Find and Replace
Styles" I type in:
Profitability Report
Entire Firm
Individual Departments
Bankruptcy
Corporate
Health Care
Immigration
Trust and Estate

Just for prqactice, I assigned, "Profitability Report" as Heading 1 and
everything below that, I assigned headings 2, 3, or 4. When I attempted to
change all other headings to heading 1, using this tool it responded with,
"no changes made."

Any idea what went wrong? I double checked my instruction format.

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Thanksagain,
Larry

Hi, Larry. I'd be interested in writing one, but I'm not sure where you
might be having difficulty. This is all I have so far:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_style_in_microsoft_word.htm But
I do want to write an "extreme" tutorial on Styles.
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Anne Troy]

Hi, Larry. I've done it up with pictures:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/find_and_replace_styles_in_microsoft_word.htm
I think what you're doing is unnecessarily typing in the text. You shouldn't
need to do that unless you're trying to APPLY a style, and you should only
do one at a time. Find will find a specific string of text, and it isn't
clear whether you're entering ALL that text (in the list) at once or just
one line at a time (which is what you should be doing). You're always
welcome to send your file if you like.
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

Anne,
Charles guided me to,
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm#Overview.

Under Styles
Scroll down about 3/4 of the way,

When I attempt this Find & Replace exercise called, "Find and Replace
Styles" I type in:
Profitability Report
Entire Firm
Individual Departments
Bankruptcy
Corporate
Health Care
Immigration
Trust and Estate

Just for prqactice, I assigned, "Profitability Report" as Heading 1 and
everything below that, I assigned headings 2, 3, or 4. When I attempted to
change all other headings to heading 1, using this tool it responded with,
"no changes made."

Any idea what went wrong? I double checked my instruction format.