Styles: BodyText versus Normal

[Paul McCutcheon]

What's the difference between "BodyText" and "Normal" styles?

[Dave Rado]

See:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

Regards

Dave

"Paul McCutcheon" <pmccu...@arpeco.com> wrote in message
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[John McGhie]

Paul:

In simple documents, often nothing. In professional documents, "Normal"
style is usually used as a sign that the paragraph has yet to be formatted
correctly..

Normal is Word's default formatting. There has to be one: Word cannot work
with a paragraph in which the formatting is entirely undefined.

Body Text styles are the styles used in the body of the document: They're
not headings, not lists, not captions...

In my case, the Body Text series usually has a left indent of two
centimetres to set them off from the headings.

Given that things like Draw and Tables often format in Normal style, I do
not put either margins or leading on Normal style, and that way I do not
have to bother correcting it in diagrams if I am feeling lazy.

Hope this helps.

in article e709pDiXAHA.280@cppssbbsa05, Paul McCutcheon at
pmccu...@arpeco.com wrote on 5/12/00 5:38 AM:

> What's the difference between "BodyText" and "Normal" styles?
>
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[RMF]

hi john

John McGhie wrote:
[..]

> In my case, the Body Text series usually has a left indent of two
> centimetres to set them off from the headings.
>
> Given that things like Draw and Tables often format in Normal style, I do
> not put either margins or leading on Normal style, and that way I do not
> have to bother correcting it in diagrams if I am feeling lazy.

interesting, I've worked this one out just the other way round for me: I
set the heading-styles with negativ indents, thus I don't need any indet
with normal (or body text etc), and my problems with tables etc are a
bit reduced as well...

-bob

[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

Back in Word 6, Word used to crash and corrupt documents if you used
negative indents, so I haven't used them since. I think it's OK now, but it
is a pain having to override the margin whenever you want to put a table or
picture in.

So I run my major headings flush left and indent all the body styles. I
find it easier to work that way, but it's probably just a matter of
preference..

Cheers

in article 3A2E1DFD...@bwi.bepr.ethz.ch, RMF at f...@bwi.bepr.ethz.ch
wrote on 6/12/00 10:07 PM:

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