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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Word for Windows 2.0a question... styles
- Message-ID: <mcdonald.212@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 14:50:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.101658.23434@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari) writes:
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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.
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- >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.
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- Thanks. That works just fine.
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- Word is weird. I actually **tried** that a couple of times, but must have
- done something wrong, because the "merge" button was always grayed out.
- Arggggggh. This makes me much happier about W4W.
-
- Doug McDonald
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