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How do I make as set of styles I've created in one document carry across all documents I work with? I hate having to adjust alll of my headings to suit my needs everytime I start a new document.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

you can make a Word template and base all yr docs on the template.

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

but what if I don't want to do that. I always use the same set of styles, (I am very dull its my university style with helvetica instead of Times). I've got templates for letters and the like but I just want new documents to have the same set of styles.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

just have no text in the template. the styles carry through - you can change the style in the template and all the docs should update (or you can choose the option to allow this)

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"what if I don't want to do that" = "how can i do x w/o doing the things i need to do to do x" (i'm afraid)

(i'm allergic to templates also, bcz i wz born in 1960 and did freeform finger painting instead the 3 Rs at primary)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and you can edit your normal.dot (or equiv on mac) which defines the initial setup of all new docs (e.g. from control N)

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I HATE THIS STUPID PROGRAM

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha, it is the turd in the swimming pool. Why, with 1.75 GB of RAM and no other programs running, would "Convert Table to Text" make the app crash? I ask you!

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

hello. i do not know how, but i have done something whereby, when i mean to type speech marks (ie shift+2) it comes out as @, and vice versa. i am on windows. i want to go back to how things were. again, i do not know how. HELP ME PLS!

― stevie, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

You have moved your keyboard across the Atlantic.

― onimo, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

exactly - that is what you get when you type shift+2 in the US. Check the keyboard settings in control panel or whatever program (MSWord then?)

― Jaq, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's under Regional and Language settings, Text Input options on mine. (in the control panel)

― Jaq, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

thank you all! and what i did was press 'left shift' and 'alt' - pressing it again switches it back.

― stevie, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have a little blue button which says "EN" on the right of your Windows taskbar, just next to the system tray? If you do and you don't want this to happen again, right-click on that, choose "Settings", then "Key settings", then if there's anything in the "Hot keys" list click on each one, pick "Change key sequence", and disable it.

(Meanwhile left-clicking on the button will give you a menu to choose between UK and US keyboard layout. You can hide the button but I don't recommend hiding it until you've disabled the keyboard shortcuts.)

That one drove me mad until I did that. I alt-tab and alt-shift-tab around quite a lot.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

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