atw: Re: Unwanted paragraph styles

Well Craig (H).

There are a couple of quick and easy ways, the latter of works a treat
when recorded and turned into a macro.

You will need to have All selected in the Tools > Options > View tab so
that you can see the paragraph end markers.

(Remember that paragraph end markers in Word contain all the
attributes of a paragraph, including its style.)

Cheat #1:

Place your text cursor in a paragraph of the style that you want to use
to replace the rogue styles.
Select the paragraph end marker for that paragraph.
Press Ctrl+C to Copy that to the Windows Clipboard / Paste Buffer.
Press an arrow, Home or End key to deselect the paragraph end marker.
Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog.
Search for ^p (the paragraph end marker) of the style that you want
to replace.
Replace it with ^c (the content of the Windows Clipboard / Paste Buffer).=


Quick and easy.

Cheat #2:

Otherwise, if you'd rather change a style to another on the fly.
Place your text cursor in a paragraph of the style that you want to use
to replace the rogue styles.
Press Ctrl+Shift+S, which selects the current style in the style list
(if that tool bar is on display)
Press Ctrl+C to grab that style name.
Press [Esc] to drop you back out of the tool bar to the text.
Select any paragraph(s) that you want to change to your selected style.
Press Ctrl+Shift+S.
Press Ctrl+V to paste in the preferred style name.
Press Enter.
The paragraph styles change to your selected style.

HTH.

Cheers,

Michael

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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Hadden [mailto:CraigH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 August 2004 10:32
To: 'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: atw: Unwanted paragraph styles


I'm converting a long document from PageMaker to FrameMaker. I've exporte=
d
the text from PageMaker to RTF so that I can manipulate it in Word on the=

way to FrameMaker. In Word, I've created paragraph styles with the same
names as our FrameMaker styles and done a find-and-replace to change the
headings and most of the body text to the FrameMaker style-names. However=
,
many paragraphs still use numerous other styles.=20
=20
Is there a quick and thorough way to find those remaining paragraphs, eit=
her
in Word or FrameMaker? I thought I could generate a list (or index) of
paragraph style-names in FrameMaker, but it seems I was thinking of the
feature where you generate a list of paragraph _text_.
=20
Any ideas?
=20
Thanks,
Craig=20

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