Thank you, Dan, Jonathan, and Karen. I very much appreciate your
suggestions.

Onward!

Pat

On 1/8/07, Karen Murri comcast.net> wrote:

In Tools/Options, go to the Edit tab. Select "Prompt to update style" and
deselect "Keep track of formatting". That'll get rid of every style in your
list that is just Normal with manual formatting. It doesn't help if they
actually applied styles.

Also, in Insert/Autotext/Autotext, deselect almost everything in the
AutoFormat and AutoFormat as You Type tabs, especially those that
automatically apply formatting. Those are the options that Word uses to try
(unsuccessfully) to read your mind. They cause more problems than they
solve.

With all of that done, you can see what styles are actually styles and not
just Word making up styles for manual formatting.

Hope this helps.
-Karen

That is correct

In additon, if you want to maintain the Word 2003 menus in Word 2007, you
can proceed as follows.

1. Create a blank template in Word 2003.

Jack Lyon has posted a macro at http://tinyurl.com/y82gaf that
eliminates unused styles.

On 1/8/07, Combs, Richard <richard.combs@polycom.com> wrote:

Thank you!! People should not feel as if (1) their manual can do their
thinking for them, and/or (b) their manual *needs* to do their
thinking for therm.

or, in other words:

The computer won't explode if you play around a bit, and there's no
way documentation can substitute for experience with the product.

Milan Davidovic wrote:

I've seen "Type [or "Enter..."] as much of the name as you know," but I
like Andrew's phrasing much, much better. It's short, clear, and
encourages experimentation. I think encouraging users to experiment and
explore (in harmless ways like this) is a Very Good Thing.

Richard

You might want to take a look at The Columbia Guide to Online Style by
Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (1998) Columbia University Press, ISBN:
0-231-10789-7. There is also the Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in
the Digital Age by Constance Hale and Jessie Scanlon (1999) Broadway Books,
ISBN: 0-7679-0372-2. Yes, they are a bit dated, but you will find some
answers about why we now use certain conventions.

Pat

On 1/8/07, Tracy Taylor yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Andrew Warren synaptics.com> wrote:

Yes thanks, "type" per Microsoft. Good point. But I'm
more after the predicate portion -- in your case, "the
first few letters" would stand in for "the first one
or more". Interesting. I suppose users could figure
out for themselves when they could get away with one
letter (e.g. in some databases, a search for something
beginning with "x") and when they'd need more.

Other ideas?

Milan
http://altmilan.blogspot.com
http://www.terminus1525.ca/studio/view/2758

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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:02:36 -0500, Al Geist
geistassociates.com> wrote:

From the perspective of an occasional web designer, I can tell you CSS is
advantageous for a lot of reasons from a writing standpoint. You can vary
styles based on media and accessibility, as a small example. One
stylesheet is applied for screen viewing, another for print. There are
some features in place that also make it more useful for those with screen
readers; nested tables are horrible for that sort of thing.

Best,

Ethan
http://uppertank.net/ethanm/

Milan Davidovic wrote:

I'd write "Type the first few letters".

-Andrew

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