Proofreading e-books. Gareth Haman. SfEP conference 13-15 September 2014.
Working with Word's styles. Anne Waddingham. SfEP conference 13-15 September 2014.
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MS Word styles - everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask! This slide deck focuses on the advantages of using Word styles to format documents efficiently, including how to apply, modify and create them, and the additional benefits they confer for editing and production. There are also tips for making styles easier to work with, making the styles list more manageable and some reasons why styles sometimes misbehave.
Transcript of Working with Word's styles. Anne Waddingham. SfEP conference 13-15 September 2014.
Summary
why styles are important Word style types– paragraph and character styles
working with styles & templates styles and tags
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Why styles are important
enable quick and consistent formatting and layout
provide essential information about document structure for conversion to digital
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Word style types
paragraph style character style
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What is a paragraph style?
defines appearance of a paragraph style properties include– font, point size– line spacing, space above & below– justification, hyphenation–widow & orphan control– language (dictionary spellchecker uses)
marked with ¶ in Styles task pane
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What is a character style?
applies formatting to part of a paragraph– e.g. an italic word, a superscript
number marked with ‘a’ in Styles task pane
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Working with styles
applying styles changing styles display options misbehaving styles
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Where are styles stored?
in a Word template or document every document is based on a
template– default template is Normal
Normal template has many built-in styles– built-in styles can’t be deleted
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Working with templates
how do I create a template?– save the document as a template
how do I check which template the document is using?– open the Templates & Add-Ins box
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Why styles are important
quick and consistent formatting and layout
provide essential information about document structure for conversion to digital
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Styles and tags
styles identify elements of the text– e.g. headings, displayed quotes,
bulleted lists XML tags do the same job styles and tags are in effect
interchangeable– styles can be converted to tags and vice
versa
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XML tagging example
Finally
‘Styles are the DNA of document layout …’
Typography for Lawyers (Butterick)
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