Here's the post I made a while back to describe what "styles" are in Word, which has to do with the problem Lori is having. smile.
Word has a feature that I call "the evil styles attribute" of Word.In word, a document has a specific base "style" attributed to it by Word. That style is automatically named the "normal" style by Word. But sometimes when a book is brought into Word from another software package, the conversion has caused many different "styles" to have been applied to paragraphs or even sentences and headers throughout the book. So it's constantly changing what Word calls the document "style," even though the font size and paragraph formatting may actually remain the same.
I'm not sure what bookshare's tools do when they convert a document with these kinds of style changes throughout. If you want to get rid of all the styles stuff at once, you can, but you may lose other formatting (font size increases you've put in for titles and chapter headings, for example) that you've already done, and have to put it back in. If anyone else has a solution, please chime in! Mine is pretty much done with brute force. But the following is the way I've used to get rid of weird style stuff and revert the text back to what Word calls it's "normal" style, which should delete all those extraneous style commands. When it shows up, I usually have to do this as the very first step I take in working on a book. 1. Open the book 2. Select all the contents in the book with a control a 3. Click on the "format" drop-down menu in the tool bar and then select "style" 4. In the dialog box, the first box is a list of styles. Select "normal". 5. Click the button for "apply" 6. Press the "up arrow" key to now put yourself at the top of the document, and to deselect the text of the document. This should have stripped out all those style commands. If doing this has reset the font and paragraphing to something other than what you want it standardized to, at this point you can then redo those standardizations and they will stick, without adding any weird style codes. Good luck! And if you want to know more about what styles are and do in Word, here's some links: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/stylesms/index.html http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm Judy s. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
