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Please give us REVEAL CODES like WORD PERFECT not reveal codes
Thank you for the info-I will probably try this add-in.
I searched for "macro reader" in Word Help and all I got was the standard stuff on how to record and play macros. (I do know about macros; I use them in both Word and WP. I like keyboard shortcuts; it is a lot easier to record a macro and assign a shortcut than use the mouse to hunt for commands in the menus or on the toolbar icons. It's just not efficient to keep moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. . . Sorry for the tangent.) Anyway, I am not sure what you meant by the 'macro reader' comment. I suspect, though, that if your suggestion has anything to do with Word auto-finding or auto-replacing two spaces for every sentence, that it will actually take more time. I haven't met a word processor yet that can consistently tell the difference between an abbreviation and the end of a sentence-too many false alarms. Typically, I check spaces at the same time I do all my other editing (and I can do at least that now with the 'reveal nonprinting...' feature. In fact, I prefer to do all my editing in the same order the text goes, not a task or a "style" at a time, which is why I will probably spring for the add-in program you suggested (once I have a few spare minutes to check into it some more). Perhaps you meant something else about the macro thing. If so, feel free to clarify. Thanks. "Beth Melton" wrote: I hesitate to post this, since it appears you enjoy insulting those who are merely trying to help, which, btw is purely voluntarily, but I'll give you another chance. ;-) If you must have the equivalent of WP's Reveal Codes in Word then perhaps what you are looking for is an add-in called CrossEyes by Levit & James. I helped beta test the add-in a few years ago and can tell you it's a lot like the WP version but perhaps a little better since it reveals more than what WP Reveal Codes shows you. I think there's a trial version available too. Here's a link if interested: http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "ALeiS" wrote in message ... Ok genious, how do you see ALL the text formatting at the same time? For example, in the world of legal writing, it is important that text and citations use several different text attributes (italics, smallcaps, underline, bold), and there are people who get upset if a comma isn't italicized. It's a real pain to have to arrow through the text a letter at a time to check on the font attributes, and it's too easy to miss things like that just by glancing over the text and trying to guess based on visual impression. I am not one of those individuals gifted with the ability to discern whether or not a comma is italicized. So is there or is there not a way to see all the attibutes or formatting or codes or whatever you want to call them--all at the same time and not in some box floating at the right of the page that only shows the attributes of a little piece at a time? "Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote: You might want to read this article... Is there life after "Reveal Codes"? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm |
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I understand completely about using keyboard shortcuts. When I switched from
keyboard driven applications (DOS, such as WP 5 and Lotus) to a Macintosh and a mouse I suspect it was years before I reached the same level of efficiency, or at least felt like I did. My other suggestions weren't necessarily auto-finding and replacing. While you may have some need for this I was leaning more towards having Word highlight (such as in yellow or green) those areas you need to take a closer look at. For example highlight every occurrence of an italicized comma or double spaces, which might make things faster regardless of the application you are using since it would eliminate the need to scrutinize every comma. I've used this method in the past for similar situations and bright yellow is definitely easy to spot and I have found this method does catch things better than I can - I invariably miss something on occasion. I did note that you prefer to work through the text so this may not work for you. BUT, you never know so here's a quick example if interested (or perhaps you could use this type of method as a final check to make sure you did catch everything since the type of work you do is crucial): - On the Formatting toolbar click the arrow next to the Text Highlight button and select a highlight color. Press Esc to turn the Highlighter off. (The last color you select for the Highlight will be the color applied in the following steps.) - Press F5 to open Find - Click the Replace tab - Click the More button at the bottom - In the Find What text box type a comma - Click the Format button at the bottom, select Font, click Italic, and then click OK - Place the insertion point in the Replace text box, click the Special button, and then click "Find What Text" (you should see ^& in the text box) - With the insertion point still in the Replace text box, click the Format button and then click Highlight - Click Replace All The result is only those commas that also have the Italic format applied are highlighted. To remove the Highlight, if you have no other highlighted areas in your document, select all (Ctrl+A), click the arrow next to the Text Highlight button and then click None. It's this type of task you could record using the Macro Recorder (I'm not sure where "Macro reader" came from??) and assign a keyboard shortcut to in order to automate the process. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "ALeiS" wrote in message ... Thank you for the info-I will probably try this add-in. I searched for "macro reader" in Word Help and all I got was the standard stuff on how to record and play macros. (I do know about macros; I use them in both Word and WP. I like keyboard shortcuts; it is a lot easier to record a macro and assign a shortcut than use the mouse to hunt for commands in the menus or on the toolbar icons. It's just not efficient to keep moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. . . Sorry for the tangent.) Anyway, I am not sure what you meant by the 'macro reader' comment. I suspect, though, that if your suggestion has anything to do with Word auto-finding or auto-replacing two spaces for every sentence, that it will actually take more time. I haven't met a word processor yet that can consistently tell the difference between an abbreviation and the end of a sentence-too many false alarms. Typically, I check spaces at the same time I do all my other editing (and I can do at least that now with the 'reveal nonprinting...' feature. In fact, I prefer to do all my editing in the same order the text goes, not a task or a "style" at a time, which is why I will probably spring for the add-in program you suggested (once I have a few spare minutes to check into it some more). Perhaps you meant something else about the macro thing. If so, feel free to clarify. Thanks. "Beth Melton" wrote: I hesitate to post this, since it appears you enjoy insulting those who are merely trying to help, which, btw is purely voluntarily, but I'll give you another chance. ;-) If you must have the equivalent of WP's Reveal Codes in Word then perhaps what you are looking for is an add-in called CrossEyes by Levit & James. I helped beta test the add-in a few years ago and can tell you it's a lot like the WP version but perhaps a little better since it reveals more than what WP Reveal Codes shows you. I think there's a trial version available too. Here's a link if interested: http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "ALeiS" wrote in message ... Ok genious, how do you see ALL the text formatting at the same time? For example, in the world of legal writing, it is important that text and citations use several different text attributes (italics, smallcaps, underline, bold), and there are people who get upset if a comma isn't italicized. It's a real pain to have to arrow through the text a letter at a time to check on the font attributes, and it's too easy to miss things like that just by glancing over the text and trying to guess based on visual impression. I am not one of those individuals gifted with the ability to discern whether or not a comma is italicized. So is there or is there not a way to see all the attibutes or formatting or codes or whatever you want to call them--all at the same time and not in some box floating at the right of the page that only shows the attributes of a little piece at a time? "Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote: You might want to read this article... Is there life after "Reveal Codes"? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm |
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Regarding my "sarcastic tone," I was responding in kind to the tone of the
"Life after Reveal Codes" article. Have you read it? It isn't exactly written in a diplomatic tone. In addition to its condescending tone, the content of the article shows that the author has absolutely no understanding of the concerns faced by people who are looking for the nonexisent Word equivalent of 'reveal codes.' I am the author of the article. I used WordPerfect for many years and there are many WP features I still occasionally miss, but Reveal Codes is rarely one of them; I found the inline codes usually more troublesome than helpful, especially when they were reduplicated many times. As a copy editor and typesetter, I do have to be anal about whether or not commas are italicized, though in mainstream publishing the convention is to italicize a comma following an italicized word rather than the reverse. Note that if you double-click to select a word to italicize, Word will italicize a space after it but *not* any punctuation; that makes my job harder but yours easier. FWIW, I have reread this article and fail to find any trace of condescension, but I suppose that must be in the eyes of the beholder. "Life after Reveal Codes" doesn't even suggest the partial fix of clicking on the 'paragraph' symbol (shortcut Ctrl* a/k/a Ctrl+Shift+8) to toggle "reveal non-printing characters," which displays a little "dot" for every space so you can easily spot extra or omitted spaces. I guess you must not have given up on the article too soon because item #1 (yes, that's right, the very first point) says: “The most important one is display of nonprinting characters. The Show/Hide ¶ button on the Standard toolbar toggles this display on and off. “The meaning of each of the nonprinting characters (or 'formatting marks,' as they are known in Word 2000 and 2002), is explained in ‘What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean?’ With these symbols displayed, it is much easier to find out that, for example, your document is printing an extra blank page because you have half a dozen empty paragraphs at the end.” The referenced (linked) article is an exhaustive discussion of the meaning of all the nonprinting characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "ALeiS" wrote in message news Taz, et al.: Selecting the phrase and looking at the "button" . . . that's exactly the problem. It takes a lot longer to click on each word or each comma one at a time to check the formatting. I am in one of many professions where it is necessary to check these things. It is common to judge someone's academic or legal abilities by something as anal as whether the person used the correct citation format. In legal (and academic) citations a document name is often italicized, but the comma at the end of the document name is NOT italicized. I did not create this system ("Bluebook"); Harvard professors did. Unfortunately, I am stuck using Bluebook just like I am stuck using Word for some things. Learnining to use "styles" will not make checking formats any easier because you'd have to have a different "style" for every piece of the citation. The italicized document or case name would have one style, but the document's location (including the comma attached to the last word of the case name) would have a different style, which may have a different format from the case or publilcation date. Citation is all about italicizing and unitalicizing and applying smallcapps every couple characters. Because you can't see a list of all the text with applicable "styles" all at the same time, you would have to scroll through a letter at a time to check everything. Also, Word tends to apply the same formatting to an entire word, so I doubt the "style" feature is even compatible for my purposes-the reason I don't plan to spend much time learning to use it. Responding to another comment: YES, there are a lot of people who CAN tell whether a comma is italicized just by looking at it. It is these people who decide or at least influence whether an article gets published or whether a court accepts an appeal-something that can affect a client's money, custody of their children, whether or for how long they go to prison, and, in rare cases, whether they live or die. I don't expect you to understand, but trust me, the citations have to be perfect because even a few mistakes damage the writer's credibility--and damaged credibility means diminished persuasive effect. The way the Word program is written makes checking these things a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Regarding my "sarcastic tone," I was responding in kind to the tone of the "Life after Reveal Codes" article. Have you read it? It isn't exactly written in a diplomatic tone. In addition to its condescending tone, the content of the article shows that the author has absolutely no understanding of the concerns faced by people who are looking for the nonexisent Word equivalent of 'reveal codes.' Some other silly anal things article editors and judicial clerks care about are whether a line break inappropriately splits up citations containing hyphens and section symbols, and whether a writer uses the correct number of spaces between words and sentences. (The ability to spot extra or missing spaces seems to be even more prevelant than the ability to spot inappropriately italicized commas.) "Life after Reveal Codes" doesn't even suggest the partial fix of clicking on the 'paragraph' symbol (shortcut Ctrl* a/k/a Ctrl+Shift+8) to toggle "reveal non-printing characters," which displays a little "dot" for every space so you can easily spot extra or omitted spaces. A Word user who doesn't know about "reveal non-printing characters" must arrow through a character at a time to check for the correct number of spaces. As for keeping characters together, "reveal non-printing characters" helpfully displays symbols for non-breaking spaces and hyphens (a/k/a "hard space" and "hyphen character" to WP users-Microsoft does get points for picking the more intuitive name). Before I found out about "reveal..." I actually checked this by inserting dummy text to force a citation to the end of a line to see if the statute number stayed together despite the hyphen or space after the section symbol. The only other alternative was to manually fix inappropriately "split" text during the final proofread-when I needed to be concentrating on other issues. Thanks to all for confirming my suspicions that it just can't be done in Word. And I do appreciate everyone trying to help. Unfortunately, no one seems to fully appreciate the real issue; as a result these postings are all just regurgitations of what others have already posted. Thanks anyway. "CyberTaz" wrote: Double-click the comma in question & look at the Italics button on the formatting toolbar. If the button is pressed in, the comma is italicized - If the button is popped out the comma *isn't* italicized... But as Graham suggested if the document is properly formatted it shouldn't be necessary to check every comma in the document. If styles are used single characters simply don't get left out of the process. If a certain phrase is suspect, select the phrase and look at the button. If *any* of the phrase isn't italicized the button will be popped out and clicking it twice or - better yet - reapplying the appropriate style will reformat the selected content completely. I understand where you're coming from & have had to deal with many people in a similar situation. You've learned to use WP effectively & have been forced to use a different program against your will. The natural tendency is to fight it every step of the way rather than learning to use the new tool, but it isn't a matter of "better or worse" it's simply a matter of *different* On another level, I sincerely hope that Ok genious, wasn't written with the venomous sarcastic tone the phrase evokes. The people here aren't responsible for you situation and are volunteering there time & knowledge to help you make the transition as smooth as possible. Don't take your anger & resentment out on them. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 8/18/07 5:00 AM, in article , "ALeiS" wrote: Ok genious, how do you see ALL the text formatting at the same time? For example, in the world of legal writing, it is important that text and citations use several different text attributes (italics, smallcaps, underline, bold), and there are people who get upset if a comma isn't italicized. It's a real pain to have to arrow through the text a letter at a time to check on the font attributes, and it's too easy to miss things like that just by glancing over the text and trying to guess based on visual impression. I am not one of those individuals gifted with the ability to discern whether or not a comma is italicized. So is there or is there not a way to see all the attibutes or formatting or codes or whatever you want to call them--all at the same time and not in some box floating at the right of the page that only shows the attributes of a little piece at a time? "Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote: You might want to read this article... Is there life after "Reveal Codes"? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm And you might also want to learn how Word works. Realize it is NOT WP and works differently. Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified Editor/TechTrax Ezine Free MS Tutorials: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Optimize your business docs: http://www.mousetrax.com/consulting Learn VBA the easy way: http://www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:23:02 -0700, "Rachel King" Rachel wrote: Help. Please urge Microsoft to give us "REVEAL CODES" like the reveal codes in Corel's WORD PERFECT not the "reveal codes" in Microsoft Word. Microsoft words' reveal codes is worthless -- it only shows some codes, That's why I still love Corel's Word Perfect because when we have a problem with formatting or anything we can turn on "reveal codes" and we can see every single code and we can try to delete various codes to ascertain what is causing the problem. I still don't know how or why some key strokes cause different effects and if we had "reveal codes" which would reveal ALL codes, we could figure out what causes problems on our own. We need to be able to troubleshoot ourselves and we cannot so long as we do not have reveal codes! |
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Note also that a shortcut for applying formatting in the Find dialog is to
use the same keyboard shortcuts used in the text. For example, press Ctrl+I once to get Format: Font: Italic. Press Ctrl+I again to get Format: Font: Not Italic. A third time removes the formatting. The same can be done with Ctrl+B, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+Shift+A, Ctrl+Shift+K, etc. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... I understand completely about using keyboard shortcuts. When I switched from keyboard driven applications (DOS, such as WP 5 and Lotus) to a Macintosh and a mouse I suspect it was years before I reached the same level of efficiency, or at least felt like I did. My other suggestions weren't necessarily auto-finding and replacing. While you may have some need for this I was leaning more towards having Word highlight (such as in yellow or green) those areas you need to take a closer look at. For example highlight every occurrence of an italicized comma or double spaces, which might make things faster regardless of the application you are using since it would eliminate the need to scrutinize every comma. I've used this method in the past for similar situations and bright yellow is definitely easy to spot and I have found this method does catch things better than I can - I invariably miss something on occasion. I did note that you prefer to work through the text so this may not work for you. BUT, you never know so here's a quick example if interested (or perhaps you could use this type of method as a final check to make sure you did catch everything since the type of work you do is crucial): - On the Formatting toolbar click the arrow next to the Text Highlight button and select a highlight color. Press Esc to turn the Highlighter off. (The last color you select for the Highlight will be the color applied in the following steps.) - Press F5 to open Find - Click the Replace tab - Click the More button at the bottom - In the Find What text box type a comma - Click the Format button at the bottom, select Font, click Italic, and then click OK - Place the insertion point in the Replace text box, click the Special button, and then click "Find What Text" (you should see ^& in the text box) - With the insertion point still in the Replace text box, click the Format button and then click Highlight - Click Replace All The result is only those commas that also have the Italic format applied are highlighted. To remove the Highlight, if you have no other highlighted areas in your document, select all (Ctrl+A), click the arrow next to the Text Highlight button and then click None. It's this type of task you could record using the Macro Recorder (I'm not sure where "Macro reader" came from??) and assign a keyboard shortcut to in order to automate the process. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "ALeiS" wrote in message ... Thank you for the info-I will probably try this add-in. I searched for "macro reader" in Word Help and all I got was the standard stuff on how to record and play macros. (I do know about macros; I use them in both Word and WP. I like keyboard shortcuts; it is a lot easier to record a macro and assign a shortcut than use the mouse to hunt for commands in the menus or on the toolbar icons. It's just not efficient to keep moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. . . Sorry for the tangent.) Anyway, I am not sure what you meant by the 'macro reader' comment. I suspect, though, that if your suggestion has anything to do with Word auto-finding or auto-replacing two spaces for every sentence, that it will actually take more time. I haven't met a word processor yet that can consistently tell the difference between an abbreviation and the end of a sentence-too many false alarms. Typically, I check spaces at the same time I do all my other editing (and I can do at least that now with the 'reveal nonprinting...' feature. In fact, I prefer to do all my editing in the same order the text goes, not a task or a "style" at a time, which is why I will probably spring for the add-in program you suggested (once I have a few spare minutes to check into it some more). Perhaps you meant something else about the macro thing. If so, feel free to clarify. Thanks. "Beth Melton" wrote: I hesitate to post this, since it appears you enjoy insulting those who are merely trying to help, which, btw is purely voluntarily, but I'll give you another chance. ;-) If you must have the equivalent of WP's Reveal Codes in Word then perhaps what you are looking for is an add-in called CrossEyes by Levit & James. I helped beta test the add-in a few years ago and can tell you it's a lot like the WP version but perhaps a little better since it reveals more than what WP Reveal Codes shows you. I think there's a trial version available too. Here's a link if interested: http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "ALeiS" wrote in message ... Ok genious, how do you see ALL the text formatting at the same time? For example, in the world of legal writing, it is important that text and citations use several different text attributes (italics, smallcaps, underline, bold), and there are people who get upset if a comma isn't italicized. It's a real pain to have to arrow through the text a letter at a time to check on the font attributes, and it's too easy to miss things like that just by glancing over the text and trying to guess based on visual impression. I am not one of those individuals gifted with the ability to discern whether or not a comma is italicized. So is there or is there not a way to see all the attibutes or formatting or codes or whatever you want to call them--all at the same time and not in some box floating at the right of the page that only shows the attributes of a little piece at a time? "Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote: You might want to read this article... Is there life after "Reveal Codes"? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm |
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Hi Beth, Thanks for that link... I downloaded the Crosseyes program and when it wouldn't install, I contacted the company. Here was their reply: "The version of CE you have was not built for office 2007. We will have a new version soon that will work for office 2007. Please check back with us in late September, we should have it for release by then. Sorry for the inconvenience." But I like the idea and there is a trial version, so I will certainly try again later. Don Best regards, "Beth Melton" wrote: If you must have the equivalent of WP's Reveal Codes in Word then perhaps what you are looking for is an add-in called CrossEyes by Levit & James. I helped beta test the add-in a few years ago and can tell you it's a lot like the WP version but perhaps a little better since it reveals more than what WP Reveal Codes shows you. I think there's a trial version available too. Here's a link if interested: http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton |
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Yeah, that makes sense, they would need a different add-in for Word 2007.
Thanks for the update. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Don Ellis" wrote in message ... Hi Beth, Thanks for that link... I downloaded the Crosseyes program and when it wouldn't install, I contacted the company. Here was their reply: "The version of CE you have was not built for office 2007. We will have a new version soon that will work for office 2007. Please check back with us in late September, we should have it for release by then. Sorry for the inconvenience." But I like the idea and there is a trial version, so I will certainly try again later. Don Best regards, "Beth Melton" wrote: If you must have the equivalent of WP's Reveal Codes in Word then perhaps what you are looking for is an add-in called CrossEyes by Levit & James. I helped beta test the add-in a few years ago and can tell you it's a lot like the WP version but perhaps a little better since it reveals more than what WP Reveal Codes shows you. I think there's a trial version available too. Here's a link if interested: http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton |
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If you are feeling really adventurous, DOCX is an XML format document in a
compressed format. You could open that format with a decompression tool such as WinRar and view the resulting codes directly from the document -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Don Ellis wrote: Hi Beth, Thanks for that link... I downloaded the Crosseyes program and when it wouldn't install, I contacted the company. Here was their reply: "The version of CE you have was not built for office 2007. We will have a new version soon that will work for office 2007. Please check back with us in late September, we should have it for release by then. Sorry for the inconvenience." But I like the idea and there is a trial version, so I will certainly try again later. Don Best regards, "Beth Melton" wrote: If you must have the equivalent of WP's Reveal Codes in Word then perhaps what you are looking for is an add-in called CrossEyes by Levit & James. I helped beta test the add-in a few years ago and can tell you it's a lot like the WP version but perhaps a little better since it reveals more than what WP Reveal Codes shows you. I think there's a trial version available too. Here's a link if interested: http://www.levitjames.com/crosseyes/CrossEyes.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton |
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Dear Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant - Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified,
I’ve read the articles; I’ve read all the comments for this subject matter. I am very frustrated and agree in “most” with Mr. AleiS communications! This is ridiculous & many of the communications he received in return was done so with bad taste and irresponsive to his direct query. I commonly receive word documents that are pre-formatted (Pre-designed style templates from word) that often contain cell errors! Example: The format in one cell is varied from the balance. I now understand the reason reveal formatting in Word 07 is worthless in correcting what seemed to be simple flaws. I made the mistake of attempting to correct an error in a time sensitive document this AM and here I am posting this comment because of such. Thank goodness I have a secretary that can take the “TIME” to correct the changes, by redoing the documents from scratch! I have ordered to my IT department to pilot your add on suggestion in hopes this feature will work. For this I/we thank you in advance for this suggestion. Regards, General Manager of US Corporate Services "Dian D. Chapman, MVP" wrote: You might want to read this article... Is there life after "Reveal Codes"? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm And you might also want to learn how Word works. Realize it is NOT WP and works differently. Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified Editor/TechTrax Ezine Free MS Tutorials: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word eBook: http://www.mousetrax.com/books.html Optimize your business docs: http://www.mousetrax.com/consulting Learn VBA the easy way: http://www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:23:02 -0700, "Rachel King" Rachel wrote: Help. Please urge Microsoft to give us "REVEAL CODES" like the reveal codes in Corel's WORD PERFECT not the "reveal codes" in Microsoft Word. Microsoft words' reveal codes is worthless -- it only shows some codes, That's why I still love Corel's Word Perfect because when we have a problem with formatting or anything we can turn on "reveal codes" and we can see every single code and we can try to delete various codes to ascertain what is causing the problem. I still don't know how or why some key strokes cause different effects and if we had "reveal codes" which would reveal ALL codes, we could figure out what causes problems on our own. We need to be able to troubleshoot ourselves and we cannot so long as we do not have reveal codes! |
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Please give us REVEAL CODES like WORD PERFECT not reveal codes
Styles are really basic and really easy -- they're just pre-made
collections of all the different formatting decisions that can apply to a paragraph. You can tell Word to show you only the few styles that are actually being used in your document. Headings are simple if you just use the styles "Heading 1" through "Heading 9" that come with (modifying their formats as desired). If you need your headings and/or paragraphs numbered, it's a little bit more complicated, and it works somewhat differently in Word2003 and Word2007. On Aug 19, 3:28*pm, Bonnie wrote: CyberTaz: Not sure if I'm directing this correcting, but these people who can't live without their "WordPerfect," c'mon, give me a break. *I, too, work in the legal profession as actually a legal secretary for now 24 years and until 2002, we used WordPerfect religiously. *I was one of those who did not under any circumstance want to start using Word and fought it intensely, but now, I would fight it intensely to go back to the inferior product of WordPerfect. * People just need to chill out and give Word a chance. *I really like it, even though I have not mastered the styles/headings yet, I'm still plugging along and my bosses (the attorneys I work for) seem quite happy with my work, as I'm a perfectionist and it's quite easy to get a comma italicized. *Keep up the good work in helping people on this site. -- Bonnie Lynn Green |
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