[stylist] Word Processing question

slery slerythema at insightbb.com
Fri Aug 27 06:01:57 UTC 2010 

Yes, Joe, that is exactly what I am talking about.

Cindy

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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joe Orozco
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:56 AM
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> 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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> 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
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> > 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
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> > >> 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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