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Styles and Formatting-Select All removes formatting?
I've noticed that sometimes when I use "Styles and Formatting--Select
All n instances" to select multiple occurances of text with a particular style, that the selection either happens instantly, or takes a length of time to occur during which time a "Microsoft Word is analyzing your document" message appears in the status bar. Whether or not this message appears doesn't appear to depend on how many instances of text are being selected; I've seen it appears when only three paragraphs of text are being selected, while selecting another style with hundreds of instances happens instantly. The main problem is that after performing a "Select All", and the "...analysing..." message appearing, is that a custom table style has been removed from tables in my document. Not sure why as the style I'm selecting is not related to the table style. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, P. |
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Styles and Formatting-Select All removes formatting?
"Paul Moloney" wrote in message
... I've noticed that sometimes when I use "Styles and Formatting--Select All n instances" to select multiple occurances of text with a particular style, that the selection either happens instantly, or takes a length of time to occur during which time a "Microsoft Word is analyzing your document" message appears in the status bar. Whether or not this message appears doesn't appear to depend on how many instances of text are being selected; I've seen it appears when only three paragraphs of text are being selected, while selecting another style with hundreds of instances happens instantly. Note that using Find is often faster than selecting all instances. It is especially useful when you quickly want to change the formatting of text. You can search a style and replace with another, for example. The main problem is that after performing a "Select All", and the "...analysing..." message appearing, is that a custom table style has been removed from tables in my document. Not sure why as the style I'm selecting is not related to the table style. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, P. In what way has the style been removed? Is some other style applied to the tables instead? Or has the formatting changed? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Styles and Formatting-Select All removes formatting?
I also found "Find all instances" more useful than "Select All" in a
document where I was trying to count paragraphs in a particular style. Since some of the paragraphs had been modified (with direct paragraph formatting), they appeared as separate "formatting" listings, making it impossible to select all the instances of the base style, whereas Find doesn't care about direct formatting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... "Paul Moloney" wrote in message ... I've noticed that sometimes when I use "Styles and Formatting--Select All n instances" to select multiple occurances of text with a particular style, that the selection either happens instantly, or takes a length of time to occur during which time a "Microsoft Word is analyzing your document" message appears in the status bar. Whether or not this message appears doesn't appear to depend on how many instances of text are being selected; I've seen it appears when only three paragraphs of text are being selected, while selecting another style with hundreds of instances happens instantly. Note that using Find is often faster than selecting all instances. It is especially useful when you quickly want to change the formatting of text. You can search a style and replace with another, for example. The main problem is that after performing a "Select All", and the "...analysing..." message appearing, is that a custom table style has been removed from tables in my document. Not sure why as the style I'm selecting is not related to the table style. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, P. In what way has the style been removed? Is some other style applied to the tables instead? Or has the formatting changed? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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