Microsoft KB Archive/61776

Toggle Formatting Changing When Styles Applied

PSS ID Number: Q61776 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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The following information describes how to use styles in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh. This information is available as part of an application note titled “MW0168: Style Formatting.” For information about obtaining this application note, query on “MW0168” in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

= MORE INFORMATION =

When a style is defined or applied based on a selection, Word version 4.0 considers the formatting of only the first 255 characters of the selected paragraph. If more than half of the first 255 characters in the first paragraph of a selection contain a manual character formatting attribute, Word assumes that formatting to be part of the style that is being applied or defined. This applies to all the character formatting attributes available in the Format Character dialog box.

If no text is selected when a style is applied or defined, then the following two rules are true for the first 255 characters in the paragraph the style is being applied to. If there is a selection of text, Word looks at only the first 255 characters in the FIRST paragraph of that selection when a style is applied or defined. In other words, Word tries to calculate the importance of the manual character formatting based on the selected text, if any.

  Manual character formatting currently applied to more than half of the first 255 characters in the first paragraph is removed when a style defined to NOT have that character format is applied.   If manual character formatting is applied to less than half of the first 255 characters in a paragraph, the manual formatting is NOT considered to be part of the style and will be retained when a style is applied. NOTE: When the character formats listed under Style in the Format Character dialog box are defined in a style, and that style is then applied to a paragraph with the same character formats in less than half of the first 255 characters, those character formats will automatically toggle when the style is applied. There is no way to work around this behavior. 

If character formats toggle unexpectedly when you apply a style, select the paragraph and choose Plain For Style from the Format menu (or press COMMAND+SHIFT+SPACEBAR).

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