Microsoft KB Archive/65546

MacWord: Style Name Converted from PageMaker Appears Twice PSS ID Number: Q65546 Article last modified on 10-16-1993 PSS database name: APpsConV

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MACINTOSH

Summary:

A Word for the Macintosh version 3.x or 4.0 automatic style name may appear twice in the Define Styles dialog box. It will appear once preceded by a bullet, and once without a bullet. This situation will occur under the following conditions:


 * 1) The document has been exported from PageMaker for the Macintosh.
 * 2) The document contained a style created in PageMaker that has the same name as one of Word’s automatic styles (such as Normal, TOC 1, or Page Number, for example).

Word applies the automatic style to the document’s text instead of the imported style. To prevent this problem and to have the imported style applied to all the text, save the document in RTF format when exporting it from PageMaker.

More Information:

To apply the imported style to text in a document that was not saved as RTF before it was exported from PageMaker, do the following:


 * 1) Select the text you want the style to be applied to.
 * 2) From the Format menu, choose Define Styles or Styles.
 * 3) Select the desired style name without a bullet next to it.
 * 4) Click the OK button.

To change the name of the imported style, do the following:


 * 1) From the Format menu, choose Define Styles.
 * 2) Select the style name to be changed.
 * 3) Change the name listed next to the word “Style:”.
 * 4) Click the Define or OK button.
 * 5) Click the OK button listed in the next dialog box.

Aldus has confirmed this to be a problem with the way PageMaker exports its styles. This problem occurs only with styles that have the same name as one of Word’s automatic styles. If the PageMaker style name is identical to a user-created style name, the Word style will be replaced by the imported style, as would normally be expected.

For more information on using styles in Word, see pages 340-355 of the “Reference to Microsoft Word” version 4.0 manual or pages 348-366 in the “Reference to Microsoft Word” version 3.0 manual, or obtain the Microsoft Product Support Services application note titled “MW0168: Style Formatting.” For more information about obtaining this application note, query on “MW0168” in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

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