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Subject:Word question: applying styles with toolbar icons From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:04:04 -0700
I'll probably post this to the Word users list, too, but you guys are my
homies, so I'll bounce it off you first:
Do you know how to tie the formatting produced by Word's standard toolbar
icons to specific user-defined styles?
For example - I've built a Word template (.dot) that has three bulleted
list styles. *I* know to use styles, but my coworkers don't, and
reeducation is not an option. So what I'd like to do is set up the
template so that when they select some text and click the Bullets icon, it
applies MY "Bullet 1" style. And then (here's where it gets trickier) for
each time they click the Increase Indent icon while that bulleted text is
selected, I want Word to apply the subsequent bullet styles I created,
"Bullet 2" and "Bullet 3."
I've seen things like this happen before in Word docs, but not because I
planned it that way. I have seen it apply actual named styles just by
using a toolbar icon. But in each case it was mostly Word Voodoo - I don't
know how to *make* it happen. Do you? If I can pull this off, with both
bulleted and numbered lists, I'll have gone a long way towards creating
that Holy Grail of desktop publishing: a relatively foolproof template.
Thoughts or suggestions are appreciated. I'm running Word 2000 on an NT
box. Oh, and I'm a Cancer, and my turn-ons include husky voices and long
walks on the beach. Thanks!
Keith Cronin
Remember: If you don't use styles, the terrorists win.
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