Word 2003 Formating.

[Baha]

Greetings:

I have a 300 page book that has a lot of different headings and inconsistent
formatting. I want to:

1. Simplify it to only 3 heading level, one font, and a few basic font type
face, and only three types of bullets.

2. At the same time I MUST KEEP THE COMPLEX INDEX that had been created over
time.

Is there an easy way to do this.


Happy new year

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Assigning new paragraph styles to the paragraphs in the document won't
affect the index markers.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Peter says, changing heading styles (or any styles) won't affect your
index, which is based on XE fields (they're formatted as Hidden text, so it
would be a good idea to have that displayed so you don't inadvertently
delete any of them). If by "index," however, you mean a table of contents
(TOC), then this is a different issue. By default, a TOC is based on heading
styles, so applying heading styles sensibly would allow you to create a
sensible TOC.

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