[stylist] Word Processing question

Judith Bron jbron at optonline.net
Wed Aug 18 16:18:20 UTC 2010 

Thanks Joe, this message is a keeper.  I'm about to put it in my files. 
Thanks!  Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question


> I'm not Cindy, but I think she may be talking about the formatting styles
> you can access through Word using Shift + Control + S.  There you can pick
> from a list of formatting styles and modify their appearance so that they
> affect the document across the board where ever that style is used.  For
> example, I have a title style and a subtitle style.  With a couple
> keystrokes I can make a part of my text fall into that style, and later, 
> if
> I should change my mind about the size, font, alignment, bold, etc. I can
> just adjust the style and have it reflect throughout the document without
> manual adjustments.  Hope that helps.
>
> Joe
>
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> [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of slery
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:47 AM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question
>
>
> Judith, et al,
>
> I am a little under the weather at the moment and this requires a length
> response to do it. Therefore, I will get back to the list with
> this answer
> but not at this moment.
>
> Cindy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judith Bron
>> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:12 AM
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question
>>
>>
>>   Cindy, How do you set the style?  In my manuscript I typed
>> the words
>> formatting it to indent the first word of the paragraph by
>> 0.5 inches.  I
>> sentered the chapter title like Chapter one.  I never heard
>> of what you are
>> talking about.  Can you enlighten us further?  Thanks, Judith
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "slery" <slerythema at insightbb.com>
>> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question
>>
>>
>> > The best way, and the way that copyeditors and publishers
>> use, are to
>> > use styles.
>> >
>> > Don't format each heading and chapter. Set it to a style, then when
>> > you define the style (or your publisher changes it), it will be
>> > applied to all items listed as that style and you don't
>> have to change
>> > each and every occurrence.
>> >
>> > Cindy
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> >> On Behalf Of Judith Bron
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:33 PM
>> >> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> >> Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Donna, I'm also using word 2003 but Jaws 7.1.  I don't have those
>> >> problems. I combine chapters into one document all the time and the
>> >> font, point size
>> >> and formatting stay the same.  Here's one suggestion.  Put
>> >> all your chapters
>> >> into one document.  When you have the last one in the
>> >> document select the
>> >> document, hit control D for font, select the font you want
>> >> and go through
>> >> and do to each heading whatever you want.  Not an optimum
>> >> solution, but the
>> >> only one I can come up with.  HTH, Judith
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> >> From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
>> >> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:58 PM
>> >> Subject: [stylist] Word Processing question
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hi Guys,
>> >> > Here's the thing. I'm trying to make one document of all of my
>> >> > chapters. I've done this many times with the same
>> frustrations. If
>> >> > I
>> >> start with
>> >> > Chapter 1, put Chapter 2 on the clipboard and paste it into
>> >> Chapter 1
>> >> > after inserting a page break, one of 2 things happens.
>> >> Either the font
>> >> > changes from 12 pt. Times New Roman to 10 pt. TMNS (or
>> >> something like
>> >> > those initials anyway), or the font stays Times New Roman,
>> >> but the Chapter
>> >> > title, which I had painstakingly bolded, centered and
>> >> changed to 14 pt.,
>> >> > goes back to 12 pt. regular type and aligned left. It
>> >> always involves a
>> >> > lot of re formatting.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there some easier way to combine documents? I'm using
>> Word 2003
>> >> > with Jaws 11.
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Donna
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