"char" styles

[owen howlett]

the styles I'm using keep changing their names, for
instance "caption" becomes "caption, caption char"
or "caption, caption char, table caption". Some of them
have gone really crazy, like "footer char char char", or
just "char char char char". Wassup? Is my computer into
ballroom dancing?

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Owen

In Word 2002 and 2003, "Char" styles are created when you select part (but
not all) of a paragraph and apply a style to that part. You can prove this
yourself easily. Create a paragraph in style normal. Select one Word and
apply style Body Text. Word will create Body Text Char. Char styles are the
way that Word copes with applying a paragraph style to only part of a
paragraph. So Body Text Char is created by applying style Body Text to part
of a paragraph. Body Text Char is not created by modifying style Body Text.

For what it's worth, "Char" styles don't hurt a document, they don't
represent corruption of some kind, and Word lives with them happily; they
just look untidy to humans used to lists of styles that don't include "char"
styles.

If you see styles with "Char Char" or "Char Char Char", then you need to
update your version of Word 2002 from microsoft.com. This was fixed in Word
2002 SP-2. Go to http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and click Check
For Updates.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

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