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Subject:Re: Word 7.0 template problem From:Jane Bergen <janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:44:45 +0000
On 22 Jan 97 at 13:48, Elna Tymes wrote:
> Several wrote me privately with suggestions along this line. I
> tried every one of them, and that gray bar is apparently not an
> object. No handles appear around it when looked at as text or as
> graphics. I can't position the cursor on it nohow noway.
> <frustrated sigh>
>
> There *are* bars used as part of the formatting for some of the
> heads, Heading 1 in particular, and those are clickable. But those
> bars are black, with reverse lettering for the head, and I could
> change the shading on those just fine.
>
> Where would one look for something that appears on an odd page only
> if it isn't part of the page setup, isn't part of the header style,
> and isn't an object?
>
> Elna Tymes
> Los Trancos Systems
I missed the original message here, so I may be jumping in and
missing something....but I just opened a new doc built on the
"Contemporary Report" template in Word 7.0 to check it out. The only
gray bars I see that you might be talking about are the style called
"Block Quotation" -- is this the one? If so, that gray bar is the
result of setting up the paragraph style with a vertical gray border.
You can change it in the style dialog by clicking Modify, Border.
"Heading 1" style uses a horizontal shading, available from the same
Modify>Border dialog.
Everything else is clickable, thus a graphic. If your template has
something mine doesn't, I'd like to see it, just out of curiosity.
Another possibility is that something is a "watermark" and thus
appears on every odd page. I didn't see it in the print preview,
though. Look up the word "watermark" in the online help.
Now you've really got my curiosity....
Jane Bergen
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AnswerSoft, Inc.
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