Very long heading style names

K

Kimmi

I saw this question posted on a legal IT forum but no response yet. I thought
there may be more success here as I experience the same problem.
"We see a lot of documents where the style name is long e.g. Heading
1,Heading.CAPS,level 1,SECTION,Hoofdstukkop,Lev 1 etc with many different
variations of this. I know that this can be caused by copying and pasting
from documents already having long style names. But this happens so often I
think there must be another reason.
Does anyone know what else causes this to happen?"

I've only seen this happen in documents where Word's built-in headings
styles are linked to an outline numbering scheme. The style names aliases
can be extremely long (e.g. three times longer than the one above) and I also
think is caused by something other than cutting and pasting or manually
renaming.

Legal documents are often worked on by several people, emailed back and
forth, saved into document management systems, could be worked on in
different versions of Word and/or on PCs with different language packs
installed and third party add-ins. Could any of these create the style name
issue, or does anyone know of another cause? We know how to correct these
documents, but it would be nice to understand what could cause this in the
first place.

I would also be interested to know if other industry sectors also experience
this.

Many thanks
 
S

Stefan Blom

As far as I know, the only way to create a style name aliases is to type
additional names into the "Name" box in the Modify Style dialog box.

What constitutes an "additional name" depends on the setting for "List
separator" in Control Panel (Regional and Language Settings).
 

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