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In article <leo.671276498@galaxy> leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl writes:
>I am having a problem with MS Word 4.0 that is driving me totally *nuts*.
>I hope that somebody can help me - the manual doesn't.
>
>I have a style, called 'Reference'. The *only* way in which it differs from 
>my 'Normal' style is in that it changes some ruler stuff (indentation and
>right margin to be precise).
>
>Now I do not write my references in Word itself: I import them, formatted
>and all (i.e. with titles in italics etc.) from the program EndNote. This 
>works perfectly, except that usually the text gets pasted in 'Normal' style.
>
>So I want to change styles to 'Reference', and this is where it all
>goes wrong: for a number of the 'Normal' paragraphs, MS Word will
>lose *all* font style information when changing the paragraph style
>to 'Reference'.
>
>What is making me go crazy is that I have not the faintest idea about
>*what* the criterion is for this to happen.
>95 % of the paragraphs reformat correctly. The other 5 % don't.
>I have no clue as to why. Sometimes if you insert e.g. seven random
>plain characters after the second '^n' in such a paragraph, then the 
>reformat will work.
>In this it behaves consequently - insert 1 to 6 characters and
>reformatting causes plain text, insert 7, and it always works OK.
>But that doesn't work for all the paragraphs in the 5 %, and I really
>am on the verge of a major nervous breakdown here.
>
>Can anybody *please* explain what is happening to me? I don't even
>want to know a solution, I just want to know why it is happening!

Well, I don't know why, but I do have a solution that works. I find
this phenomenon happening in footnotes that I am reformatting. My
routine is to use the find feature to find the paragraph markers
(i.e., ^p in the find dialog box). When the paragraph marker is
selected I can apply the new format and italic stays italic. I wish I
could select all the footnotes and globally apply a new format. But
this does seem to work, and if you have an expanded keyboard, you can
use it to select the next paragraph marker by pressing the the = key
on the numeric keypad. I then get a routine set up to hit the "=" key
on the numeric keypad, and then hit command-a (repeat the last command
which is to apply the new format), hit the "=" key, etc.  It works, I
don't know why, but it works.


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