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- From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Word for Windows 2.0a question... styles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.101658.23434@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 10:16:58 GMT
- References: <mcdonald.209@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <mcdonald.209@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
- >I've been playing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husing Word for Windows for three months
- >now, and seem to keep running up against a fatal flaw:
- >
- >
- >"Style files"don't actually work. That is, once you have written a
- >paper, if you change the sytle file for it, the style does not change.
- >If you add more to it, that go in in the new style, but the old part does
- >not change.
-
- I assume you mean that by changing the document template the text does not
- change. The documentation of W4W states that changing the document template
- does not change the text and it only changes menus, glossaries, margins and
- key assignments. If you want the paragraph styles of a template to be
- imported to a document you can do that by following the instructions in the
- online help under "Copying Styles Between Documents and Templates". Maybe it
- is not very logical, but that's the way it works in W4W.
-
- >Is this correct, or am I missing something basic? How do you do it? IF
- >what I am saying is correct, this is a 100% fatal flaw... for most
- >non-trivial things I'll have to go back to Latex.
-
- The concepts of styles and document templates are not the same in W4W and
- LaTex, but you can accomplish what you want in both of them. By copying
- styles as described in the documentation, all the paragraph styles of the file
- you copy from become available in the other document and the text of those
- paragraphs whose styles are overwritten by this copying is changed.
-
- >Are there Windows word processors where style files work correctly ...
- >like in Latex, where you can simple change the style and the whole
- >document changes along?
- >
- >Doug McDonald
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