styles

A reader recently wrote with this inquiry: " Please, tell me how to identify the style used in a document developed by someone else. They sent me the style *.dotx and I saved it in my Microsoft QuickStyles Folder. However I have several similarly ... named styles -- thanks to Mr. Murphy and his law of 'if it can go wrong...'! Thank you. PS your article on displaying the paragraph styles is very helpful, now I need to know how to display the name of the style set! " My reply: Display the Home Ribbon if it is not already visible. Right-click on the tiny arrow at the lower right-hand end ... (view more)

You may have MS Word so customized that you only use a limited number of styles in your documents. If that is the case, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to scroll through all the styles associated with your Word document? The good news is that ... you don't have to do all that scrolling if you don't want to. You can limit the Style list to only those styles that you use on a day to day basis. Follow the steps below to find out how: Click on View | Task Pane (or use the quick key CTRL + F1). Use the drop-down arrow and select Styles And Formatting. Click the drop-down arrow in the Show area ... (view more)

Fonts are not the only customized or customizable items in MS PowerPoint 2007. You can give shadows to pictures, new shapes, styles and effects as well! You can also crop your pictures as needed. Follow the steps below to learn how: On the Insert ... tab, click Picture to add an image. Select the image and the Format tab will become available to you. You can now experiment with Picture Styles or make up your own custom styles! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay: visit us today! (view more)

Fonts are not the only customized or customizable items in MS PowerPoint 2007. You can give shadows to pictures, new shapes, styles and effects as well! You can also crop your pictures as needed. Follow the steps below to learn how: On the Insert ... tab, click Picture to add an image. Select the image and the Format tab will become available to you. You can now experiment with Picture Styles or make up your own custom styles! When you become a member at CarolsCornerOffice.com, you have access to this and many, many more articles that include screenshots. Don't delay: visit us today! (view more)

Styles will greatly improve the appearance and readability of your documents in MS Word. Employing the use of Styles will also make sure that your formatting is applied uniformly throughout your document. This latest version of MS Word makes it ... easier than ever to apply styles to select parts of your documents. Follow the steps below to learn how: On the Home tab of the Ribbon, you will see a group called Styles. To preview a style, select a portion of your document and hover your mouse over one of the style buttons in the Style Group and you will be afforded a quick preview of that style in ... (view more)

In my last article, we talked about generating a table of contents and updating it. What if you don't want to use Word's built-in heading styles for a table of contents? Perhaps you have created your own styles, such as OutlineLevel1, OutlineLevel2, ... or OutlineLevel3, and you wish to use these styles in the table of contents. You can use a combination of built-in and user-defined styles when generating the table of contents. Generate A Table of Contents Using Custom Styles Open a document that has been formatted with customized styles. Place the insertion point in the document where you want ... (view more)

A reader recently wrote to ask "Once a table of contents has been created, can you change the page numbers appearing on the right side of the TO?" I am assuming that the reader is talking about an automatically generated Table of Contents (TOC). And ... if that is the case, the answer is yes, absolutely! The caveat is that you have to know how to create an automatically generated TOC in order to update it when you add more text. You can generate a table of contents using Word's built-in styles, such as Heading 1, 2, and 3, or by creating and using your own custom styles. If you have a document ... (view more)

Wouldn't it be annoying to make lots of changes to a picture and save it and then you discover that it isn't what you wanted at all after you're finished? Well the good news is that in Word 2007, it is possible to preview a change before you ... actually apply it. Suppose you would like to see how your photo will look with rounded corners. Follow the steps below to discover how to accomplish this task: Launch MS Word if it is not already open. Click the photo that you would like to enhance to select it. Under Picture Tools, click the Format tab. In the Picture Styles group, click the down arrow ... (view more)

You can use the Clear Formatting command to remove formatting and styles from text in MS Word. When you remove all formatting and styles from text, it adopts the attributes of the Normal style. You can remove formatting and styles from a single ... instance or from all instances of that formatting or style. Clear Formatting command appears at the top of the Pick formatting to apply list in the Styles and Formatting task pane whenever the Show option is set to Available formatting, Formatting in use or Available styles. Since the Normal style is a paragraph style, all font, paragraph, tab, border ... (view more)

After you've gone to the trouble to apply all the various formatting options to your text, you may want to reproduce specific formatting in several places in your document. For example: suppose you decide that the body of a report looks fine with an ... 11-point Courier New font, but for definition, you decide to make the headings 14-point Arial Bold Italic in blue, with a bold blue underline. It would take a lot of time to highlight each bit of text and apply all those formatting commands. Instead, you can save time by copying the format you've already applied to text. At first, you might think ... (view more)