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Subject:Word Format Overrides - Thanks! From:"M. Dannenberg" <midannen -at- SI -dot- BOSCH -dot- DE> Date:Wed, 11 Dec 1996 16:39:20 +0100
Hi.
Thanks very much to all who responded, either to the list or privately.
A few people suggested all kinds of tricks with search-and-replace, or
reassingning styles. I had tried all of that to no avail. I think the
way Word insists on keeping manual formatting overrides even if you
assign a different style to the paragraph is quite absurd.
However, the answer to the 64000$ question was: (drum roll) CTRL-Q
removes directly applied paragraph formats from the selected text,
CTRL-SPACE does the same for character formats. So the feature actually
exists, but I couldn't find it in two hours of studying the online help
and the big tome they make you buy extra if you want documentation.
Mike Dannenberg
midannen -at- si -dot- bosch -dot- de
ETAS GmbH & Co.KG
