Summary: Word 97 style questions

["Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com>]

Hallo:

Thanks to ALL for the great and timely responses. Answers interspersed
below. However, here's what I did:

I created new styles using the names I want and matching the styles that
exist with names I don't want. I went through the document (thank the
Heavens it is short) and manually retagged all my paragraphs using the new
style names. Then, using organizer, I deleted as many of the old styles as I
could.

(If anybody knows why the styles I deleted seem to keep coming back, every
so often, I'd appreciate it. The styles making an unwanted return include
non-MS-required styles.)

I lived with having in my document the nine heading styles that I do not
want or use. I can live with one such unused but resident style (i.e.
Normal) but it's annoying having nine of these headings, too, and others. I
want to be a tech writer at Microsoft just so I can force my styles on
others (billions of others)!

I painstakingly went through my document and manually positioned,
repositioned, positioned again, and adjusted all my graphics until I was
happy. Aaaargh.

Anyway, a summary of the responses is below:


			-----Original Message-----
			From:	Brierley, Sean [SMTP:Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com]

			Q1. In word 97, I want to rename a bunch of styles.
I use
			Format|Style|Organizer|Rename, to rename highlighted
styles. However, this
			is not working.

Ms Word has a lot of pre-used styles and style names. If you use these, you
cannot later rename them. You cannot delete many of these from your
document, even if you don't want to use them. This is a little annoying
because they clutter the drop-down list, and also from an overhead
perspective. The trick is to pick style names that Microsoft has not
pre-defined, which can be difficult because a lot of the obvious style names
are unavailable . . ..

			For example, I want to rename "List 2" to "Numbered
Next" So, using the
			Rename button, I delete "List 2" and type "Numbered
Next." Unfortunately,
			what I end up with is a style called "List
2,Numbered Next." How can I
			rename these styles?

I thought List 2 had been created from scratch by the document author.
However, List 2 is apparently a pre-defined Microsoft style, so its name
cannot be changed. Sigh.

			Q2. The document in question has a bunch of styles
called "Heading n," where
			n is a number 1-9. Certainly, my document does not
have nine levels of
			headings (that would be a complex document indeed!).
How can I remove all
			"Heading n" styles? I want to remove them all
because I plan to replace them
			with styles named "Head n."

As mentioned, the Heading n styles are required to be in your document (all
nine of them, it seems).

			Q3. Positioning more than one graphic per page by
floating gets hairy when
			the graphic approaches the top of bottom of a page.
There seems to be a
			force-field in place that bounces the graphic all
over creation.
			Fortunately, I locked the anchors on my graphics.
How can I place graphics
			with certainty first time, and, as I add text, how
do I prevent the graphics
			(which move with the text) from getting bounced out
of position as they
		approach the top or bottom of a page. This is causing me a
tonne of rework.

Okay. Apparently setting graphics to float is a bad idea because, by design,
they get squirrely around the top and bottom of a page. The solution is to
set the graphics inline, which does not accommodate the needs of good or
pleasing layout and design, or to insert the graphics into tables, which
seems like the best solution from an ease-of-placement and layout
perspective, but which stinks for translating the Word doc to anything else.

Thanks for the responses, my Doc is much better for them. (BTW, has Word
2000 addressed or changed the way any of these work?)

Cheers,

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

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