Re: WORD 97 - combining styles on one line

Subject: Re: WORD 97 - combining styles on one line
From: "Ridder, Fred" <F -dot- Ridder -at- DIALOGIC -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:36:05 -0400

First, I don't consider this to be "such a convoluted workaround". The
STYLEREF field code is a powerful feature which can be used in a
lot of interesting ways. The procedure I described allows you to
generate automatic ToC entries from any arbitrary text that appears
in your document, which I think is a pretty nifty capability. The
procedure I described will work just fine, thank you, regardless of
how the text is positioned on the page; as long as the character-
formatted text precedes the field code that references it, that text
can be in a separate paragraph, in a table, in a frame, or even
embedded in the middle of a paragraph.

Second, my solution has nothing to do with sideheads. If you look
back at the original question, you'll find that it isn't asking specifically

about sideheads, either. The original question was asking about
headings and paragraph text on the same line, which I interpreted
as a single paragraph that starts with emphasized text as a kind
of heading. The original question was not about how to how to
control the placement of these elements on the page, but rather
was about how to generate an automatic ToC entry from text that
was not in a separate heading paragraph. That was the question
I answered.

Third, why does every question about "how do I do such-and-so
with the tool that I have available" have to get turned into a diatribe
on the superiority of some other tool that is not available to the
person who asked the question? Microsoft Word is not a perfect
tool (*no* software is), but it is the tool that many of us are using
for reasons that may be beyond our control. How is it useful or
helpful to keep pointing out to Word users how inferior you think
their tool is?

Fred Ridder (mailto:f -dot- ridder -at- dialogic -dot- com)
Senior Technical Writer
Dialogic Corporation, Parsippany, NJ

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor) [SMTP:wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 1998 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: WORD 97 - combining styles on one line
>
> > From: Ridder, Fred[SMTP:F -dot- Ridder -at- DIALOGIC -dot- COM]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> Having to come up with such a convoluted workaround is exactly why I say
> that having to use Winword to do long documents is like having to use a
> sledge hammer and a chain saw to do fine cabinetry.
>
> That said, Fred, what do you do if your sidehead goes to multiple lines?
> No, you really need two horizontally juxtaposed paragraphs, which is, as
> you have shown, so nigh unto impossible that very few users would happen
> upon a solution. (Meanwhile, in Frame or Ventura it's a no-brainer.
> Thanks again, Mr. Bill.)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
> Timberlands Information Services
> Federal Way, Washington USA
> mailto: wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
> (I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)




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