style issue I still do not understand

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Stephanie Stowe

Hi. I have a document which was created by someone else. I want to use the
built in styled (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) for hierarchically organiuzing
the doc. Right now, my highest level heading is this:

"Heading 1,Heading 1 Char"

I want a Heading 1 style that contains the formatting currently within the
paragraph. I do not want my style called "Heading 1, Heading 1 Char." I want
it called "Heading 1."

I got Format, Styles and Formatting. I select Show All Styles. Plain old
Heading 1 is not listed. I cannot create a Heading 1 since it is a built in
style.

How do I get my plain old Heading 1 style back and get rid of this one?
Also, how was this one created?

Thanks

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Sara

In your Style Organizer, you can highlight that style
name and choose Rename, then delete the characters that
appear after "Heading 1". That will rename your style
the way you want it.

You get style names like this when you apply a style to
part of a word (in other words, one or more Characters).
Be careful to apply your styles to an entire paragraph
and you won't get the odd style names anymore.
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

Hi Stephanie,

This problem generally comes from having applied "Heading 1" to a selection of
text, rather than to an entire paragraph (or when the cursor was simply
blinking in a paragraph). There's another thing that can cause it, but only in
the original release of Word XP; that was fixed in SP1.

Once you have this, it's not easy to get rid of; you need to use a macro that
will unlink Heading 1 Char from Heading 1 so that it can be renamed
and deleted. You'll find such a macro on my website.
I have a document which was created by someone else. I want to use the
built in styled (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) for hierarchically organiuzing
the doc. Right now, my highest level heading is this:

"Heading 1,Heading 1 Char"

I want a Heading 1 style that contains the formatting currently within the
paragraph. I do not want my style called "Heading 1, Heading 1 Char." I want
it called "Heading 1."

I got Format, Styles and Formatting. I select Show All Styles. Plain old
Heading 1 is not listed. I cannot create a Heading 1 since it is a built in
style.

How do I get my plain old Heading 1 style back and get rid of this one?
Also, how was this one created?
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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