You might find the Classic Style tool to be useful, since it displays the
current style all the time, unlike the Style Gallery, where what it displays
depends on the segment to which it's currently scrolled.
To add the Classic Style tool to the Quick Access Toolbar, right click the
QAT and choose Customize... Set Choose commands from: to Commands not in the
ribbon. Click in the list of commands and tap the T key. 13 commands up,
look for the Style command. When you hover the mouse over it, it will say
(StyleGalleryClassic) at the end of the tooltip. With it selected, click on
Add. In the right half of the window, click on Style, and then click the Up
arrow to move it up to the top of the list (that way, it will be
approximately where it was in Word 2003).
From the mouse standpoint, it works exactly as it does in Word 2003. From a
keyboard standpoint, however, it doesn't respond to Ctrl+Shift+S (which is
assigned to Apply Styles). While Ctrl+Shift+S can be reassigned, it can't be
assigned to the classic style tool... nothing can, alas. This requested
ability didn't make the final cut.
I hope this helps ease the pain a little...
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Herb Tyson MS MVP
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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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C. Moya said:
Thanks. I just realized the new "Normal" style (in the default template)
contains line spacing which eliminates the longstanding confusion between
when to use "Normal" and when to use "Body Text." That's good. The problem
is when you're using already-existing templates and can't find
(intuitively) the style you're looking for.
Right-clicking on a style in the task pane and selecting "Add to Gallery"
is also helpful. I think I'm finally getting the grasp of this. I just
think the whole thing could have been much better designed (Gallery ->
Apply Styles (?) -> weird floating box -> click on stupid button with no
text when all the other buttons have text -> old-style task pane... bla
bla bla). It's ludicrously unintuitive. I dare say written by a developer
who hasn't typed more than one paragraph in a Word Processor ever.
--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com
Patrick Schmid said:
Office button, Word Options, Customize, Commands Not in the Ribbon, Style
(Tooltip says StyleGalleryClassic in parenthesis).
Use that one. It's the old styles combobox from 2003 and I never bother
with the other two things.
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I'm a bit confused by "Styles" in Word 2007. I don't see any of the
styles
from my template in the "Gallery." I finally figured out the exceedingly
UNintuitive way to show the *real* list of Styles via the weird floating
window that leads to a seemingly redundant task pane (that I never used
in
Word 2003 and now find I HAVE to use in Word 2007).
Where are these stoic canned Styles coming from? Where is Body Text? I
think
these canned gallery "styles" encourage bad habits.... like the (bad)
habit
of using line-breaks to simulate spacing between paragraphs (thus
throwing
off widow-orphan, etc.). I'm just all types of confused.
I'm not saying the new paradigm is bad. I'm just saying I'm struggling
to
understand it.
At least until "anyone" (you, me) has had a chance to