[stylist] Word Processing question

Judith Bron jbron at optonline.net
Thu Aug 19 15:25:53 UTC 2010 

Another keeper.  Thanks!  Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question


> Hello:
>
>     This is great. I am writing some articles and am using Word 2007. 
> Getting to the assortment of styles was proving awkward with the ribbon 
> interface. By the way, if you want to make a line of text a heading, press 
> shift+ctrl+s and then press h. This will take you to the top of the list 
> of possible headings. If you use a heading 2 style, a heading style will 
> appear in the list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Word Processing question
>
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their 
>>> sleeves,
>>> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [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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