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Subject:Re: WORD 97 - combining styles on one line From:"Ridder, Fred" <F -dot- Ridder -at- DIALOGIC -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:05:36 -0400
Mary,
Yes, you can indeed define named character styles in Word, although
I must admit that it is one of the better-hidden features.
In Word95 (and I recall it being the same in Word 6) you go to
Format->Style->New. In the resulting dialog, the second box
specifies Style Type from two choices: Paragraph and Character.
I think that Word97 may be somewhat different, but I don't know for
sure because our company's tech writers have been forced to
continue using Word 95 for now (not necessarily a bad situation...)
because of Microsoft's macro language change.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McWilliams Johnson [SMTP:mary -at- superconnect -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 1998 10:54 PM
> To: Ridder, Fred; TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: WORD 97 - combining styles on one line
>
> Are you sure you can define a character style in Word? I can't find that
> capability in Word6 or 97.
>
> Cordially, Mary
> =================
>
> At 08:05 PM 6/22/98 -0400, Ridder, Fred wrote:
> >"Bellomy, James" <bellomyj -at- HUACHUCA-EMH31 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>
> >asked the following question about Word 97:
> >
> >>Is there any way to place two styles on the same line. I would like
> >>have a heading style followed by body text style and be able to use the
> >>automated TOC function.
> >>
> >>Only answer I have found is to manually format headings, bookmark them,
> >>and link from my TOC.
> >
> >Well, that should work, but it must be awfully tedious unless you write
> >a macro to do it.
> >
> >Here's an alternative solution that works in Word 95 (and which hopefully
> >works the same way in Word 97...):
> >1) Define a character style that is applied to the heading text.
> >2) Insert a TC (table of contents entry) field code that references that
> > character style using a nested STYLEREF field code.
> >3) Build your ToC from the TC fields using the \t switch.
> >
> >For example, define a style called "char runninghead" and apply it to
> >the heading text. Then, some place after the text of each heading,
> >insert a nested field code { TC "{ STYLEREF "runninghead" }" }. Then
> >generate the ToC using a field code something like { TOC \o "1-4" \t },
> >which will pick up the standard Heading 1 through Heading 4 entries
> >(specified by the \o switch and the "1-3" parameter) plus the TC
> >field codes (specified via the \t switch).
> >
> >
> >Fred Ridder (mailto:f -dot- ridder -at- dialogic -dot- com)
> >Senior Technical Writer
> >Dialogic Corporation, Parsippany, NJ
> >
> >And to keep our marketing people happy:
> >Get the Dialogic Edge at: http://www.dialogic.com
> >
