Subject: Re: pruning "redundant" properties while editing
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 10:23:36 CST
I think I better retract the statement in this note. I am getting very
confused, and probably not doing something consistently. I'll try this
again after my head clears and try to give an accurate report. (Maybe
tomorrow.)
Sorry :-(
Randy
Randy Kramer wrote:
>
> Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > Would it be possible for the char props to have a "default" value, which would
> > be whatever was set for the style?
>
> Looking back at the question that Martin Sevior posed: "How do I turn
> off a specific attribute so that it is inherited from the previous span,
> paragraph or section?" and Pierre's question above, I just wanted to
> chip in and say that, after some experimentation, I believe Word97 does
> let you, in essence, delete a specific attribute.
>
> I have a screen shot of what I went through to prove that to myself
> which I can provide if anyone is interested (as a zipped .bmp file).
>
> If you have, as in Pierre's example below, a paragraph with heading 1
> style, and a word within that paragraph with an extra attribute which is
> not part of (or in addition to) the normal attributes of that style, you
> can select that one particular word, and reapply the heading 1 style.
> You will then get a dialog with the question "Do you want to:" with two
> radio button choices:
>
> -Update the style to reflect recent changes? <the default, which I don't
> like -- now your underlying styles start to change -- I like my styles
> to stay fixed unless I explicity change them -- there are some other
> options that, depending on the setting, will automatically change your
> styles -- not a good thing, IMHO>
>
> -Reapply the formatting of the style to the selection?
>
> If you choose the second, the extra attribute is removed (or the
> attribute is restored to the default value -- I don't really know what
> happens inside the file (or "piece table" if Word has one), the result
> is the same).
>
> Aside: A checkbox on that same dialog, "Automatically update the style
> from now on", is one of those options that I alluded to above -- not a
> good thing.
>
> Second aside: You don't always get the dialog I mentioned, but I can't
> tell you what controls when you do and when you don't. When I tried
> this experiment earlier today, I did not get the dialog, but I got the
> desired result -- the attribute was removed (or the default style of
> Heading 1 was reapplied). When I retried it while writing this email
> (twice) I did get the dialog (both times). I can't imagine what I
> changed to cause a different result (I didn't try to change anything).
> -
>
> Let's say you had the following:
> > <p style="Heading1">Late one <c props="font-size:default">morning</c> in the <c
> > props="font-size:15pt">middle</c> of the night</p>
> > and you changed the font-size of Heading1 to 15. Everything would be 15. You
> > then change it to 14 and "middle" is still 15. You change "middle" to default
> > and it's 14. You change "morning" to 14 and nothing visibly changes. You then
> > change Heading1 to 16 and "morning" is still 14 while "middle", being default,
> > is now 16 along with the rest.
> >
> > phma
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