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Trouble with LibreOffice index and styles

I have a problem with creating an index to a document: it was not created from me, and it had the headers of the chapters simply formatted, without using styles. I applied styles (Header 1, 2, 3 and ...
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Text editor to colour code rich text format (Rtf) commands

Is there a program which can read and colour code Rtf code in its text editor? Notepad++ supports the coloring of many languages such as C++ or Javascript, but Rtf isn't supported (it's not exactly a ...
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How do I share a Quick Style Set I have created?

I have created a Quick Style Set in Word 2010 that I would like to share with colleagues. I have called this QSS OurReport. Another web site suggested the following For Windows 7, the folder should be ...
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Microsoft Word 2007 - Sentence keeps changing to Heading 1

I am using MS Word 2007 and I wish to do a bulleted list, but the program keeps changing the list to Heading 1 whereas I want it to be Normal. I have tried to click on Normal style but it simply ...
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Add custom reference style Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student

I'm following this site to install a custom reference style on Office 2010. The problem is my version does not have the folder \Bibliography\Style where the site says it should be. Where do this ...
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In Word 2010, how can I insert an icon or text in the margin that is anchored to a paragraph?

In technical books or documents you often see little icons in the margin that indicate some property of the paragraph. How would I add that in Word 2010 in such a way that it is displayed in the ...
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Why does code pasted from Visual Studio to Word and from Word to Gmail keep colors?

Why, if I copy code from Visual Studio directly into Gmail, all styles are removed but if copied first to Word and then from Word into Gmail then all styles including fonts and color are kept?
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Force style usage in Microsoft Word

Background Develop a consistent, professional-quality corporate template using Microsoft Word. Problem People use their own fonts, change styles, and generally make a mess of standardization. This ...
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Microsoft Word 2010 - Applying style to selected words

I've configured a small number of styles which are working just fine, but I'm wanting to create a new style based on an existing style where the new style can be applied to the selected words, but I ...
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MSWord: How to create a summary TOC based on table data using styles

In a MS Word document, I want to create a summary table (kind of a summary table of contents) which contains a long list of sub-topics within that section (~40 of them) that all share a common ...
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How do I apply a presentation style in OpenOffice impress?

I'm working from a template someone else provided for me. In the "Styles and Formatting" window are a number of useful styles such as "Outline 1", "Outline 2", etc. If I click in a piece of text in ...
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How do I apply two styles in the same line in LibreOffice?

Problem: How do I apply two styles in the same line in LibreOffice? The main problem is that I need two different styles: one for the index and one that is not supposed to appear in the index ...
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How to change the font of the heading number in Microsoft Word 2003?

How do you change the font of the heading number? If I get into the Styles and Formatting tab, then click on the drop down arrow of the heading I want to modify, and then edit the font in the Modify ...
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MIcrosoft Word 2003 - Can you import heading styles from other Microsoft Word documents?

For some reason, my copy of Microsoft Word 2003 has its headings all strange-like. I have a document with much nicer headings that I want to use. Is there an easy way to import these to my Word 2003 ...
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Show styles pane when Word 2010 starts

I use Word 2010 with the Navigation Pane on the left side of the screen and the Styles Pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) on the right side of the screen. Whenever I open Word, I have to set this up manually. ...
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Adjust spacing between list elements in Word 2010

Is there a way to adjust the spacing between list elements in Word 2010? I can apply a style to the list, and then edit the style, and edit the spacing before and after the element, but this applies ...
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Copying paragraphs changes next paragraph

In my MS Word 2007 document, copying and pasting the ends of paragraphs, or even just the paragraph marks, seems to sometimes alter the only the paste target paragraph, and sometimes the one after it ...
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VIM: Edit code with specific formatting options, save/commit with different formatting options

Rarely will a team of programmers agree on formatting options such as tabs vs. spaces, opening curly brackets on newlines, and other options. Is there a way to have VIM parse a file (even through an ...
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Application for choosing hairstyle, haircut and hair color [closed]

I need an application for choosing hairstyle, haircut and hair color. Where I can upload my photo and apply different haircuts to choose what is the best. For men and women. What desktop or web ...
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MS Word 2010: STYLEREF in page headers not displaying on all pages

I have a ~30 page MS Word 2010 document with a number of Heading 1 titles and tables in-between. In the page header I have inserted a STYLEREF referencing the Heading 1 style (double-click a header, ...
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Why isn't Internet Explorer respecting any stylesheets?

This question is not about my own computer, but a shared computer that I sometimes manage. It seems one of the users changed some setting so now every webpage you visit looks just plain wrong. I've ...
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Libreoffice considering ordinary text as headings

I am preparing my thesis with several headings and subheadings. In fact I started writing the report first and later went on to add pages in the beginning to insert title page, certificate, abstract, ...
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How can I save my styles' modifications for eternity in LibreOffice?

Every time I modify or create a new style in Libreoffice Text Document it works great while I'm in the document. Yet, every time I go out from Libreoffice and then I go back, all my modifications and ...
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Creating “margin icons” in MS Word, ideally as part of a style

One might have seen, in many textbooks, certain paragraphs are highlighted with an "Important" icon next to them, or a "Warning!". I would like to achieve a similar thing for a document I am writing. ...
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How to set up OpenOffice.org Writer numbering styles that look the same when exported to Word

Here's what I need: nine levels of numbering; all using 10pt Arial; all with a 1cm or so gap between the end of the number and the beginning of the text; supporting up to 99 paragraphs at each ...
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Where can I find guidelines for how to use Excel's “Data and Model” cell styles (specifically “Linked Cell”)?

(I originally asked for "well-known" guidelines, but got no answers. In light of that I think it's fine is anyone just wants to answer with their own guidelines or a link to some they like.) I have ...
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Can I just see custom style names?

In Word 2007, I found a way to just show the alias/custom names for styles, even if I re-formatted the existing built-in Word styles that had different names. This makes it easy for users to access ...
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How to set the default font style for Microsoft Word 2010?

The below screenshot shows a preset list of font styles that are available and show up under the Home tab of the ribbon with Microsoft Word 2010. Notice an orange selection showing that the Normal ...
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Setting StyleRef for Captions in Word 2007

In my word document, for the caption for figures I am currently getting an error of Error! No text of specified style in document. For the caption I can change the styleRef so that it gets the ...
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Word 2003 crashes when I edit the “Heading 2” style

So I have a large (~97 mb) Word document, with an ugly and inappropriate modified Heading 2 style. I open the Styles and Formatting pane, right-click on Heading 2 and choose Modify ... and Word ...
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How to style the Today bar in Thunderbird's Lightning plugin

The Lightning plugin in Thunderbird has a Today bar (by default it displays on the right) that displays upcoming events and tasks. The Events portion of the Today bar is broken down into the following ...
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Is it possible to swap two styles in Microsoft Word or modify the document map?

I've been writing a document in Microsoft Word and have been using the default Title style as my main heading for each section and Heading 1 for my sub-sections. However Word uses Heading 1 as the ...
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MS Word: Derive Styles from Formatting

I have copied text from a web page to MS Word (2010). The formatting of this document is done via CSS, and all headers and text is formatted in a consistent way. The formatting is retained by Word ...
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How do I disable CSS or make my own CSS style for a specific website in Google Chrome? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Change default CSS of Google Chrome Hello! I often have to view a website, that has a terrible fonts and formatting, but I really need the info from there. So, I want ...
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Are there themes that work for Firefox 4 in Mac OS X 10.6.7?

I prefer a Mac OS X styled theme, but any would be fine as long as it work on my Firefox 4 for Mac OS X.
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MS Outlook 2003: How to change default style from “paragraph” to “normal”

Is there a way to change the default style for an email message? Right now, when I click "New" mail message I get a default style of "Paragraph". I don't want it, I hate it. Can I make it go away, and ...
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Improved APA citation format in Word 2007/2010?

By default the APA citation in Word 2007 doesn't quite match APA style (e.g. it doesn't convert a citation to et. al. when the citation has been made previously and there are many authors). Is there ...
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Numbered paragraphs in Word 2007

I have the following styles defined in Word 2007. They all have outline levels 1-6. They also correctly show up in the Table of Contents (not all, I only set the TOC up to Level 3). 1 Heading 1 ...
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A dot between two numbers is converted to comma

For example when i want to write 1.1 in MS Word, the . is suddenly converted to ',' when i write the second 1. Here is a illustration of what happens: Notes: I am typing in Arabic and i want the ...
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Vista - two different menu styles

I have noticed that the window menu for most windows look like standard menus, while the window menu for the command processor (cmd.exe) look different. I assumed that cmd.exe was providing ...
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Downloadable templates and styles for Word 2010?

Where can I find downloadable templates and styles for Word 2010? I'm not a designer, but would like to find pre-packaged sets of fonts, colors and indenting that is more appealing that what is built ...
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Does Outlook 2007 support named styles?

A routine email I prepare consists of a narrative section and two evidence sections. I want the narrative in 11-point Calibri and the evidence in 9-point Bitstream Monospace. A CSS solution would ...
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What is the shortcut key to toggle the Styles sidebar in Word 2007?

What is the shortcut key to toggle the Styles sidebar in Word 2007? CtrlShiftS brings up "Apply Styles", but I want the sidebar that lists my document styles.
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Openoffice: why is a paragraph numbering style sometimes greyed out (unchangeable)?

In OpenOffice Writer 3.2, I try to change the numbering style used for Heading 2, but in the Outline & Numbering tab of the Paragraph Style dialog box, the Numbering Style option is greyed out. I ...
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Word 2007: style name already exists or is a built-in style… but I can't find it!

I'm tidying up a large Word 2007 document that has a lot direct formatting and inconsistently applied paragraph styles in it. I want to define a new style called "Section Heading", but am told that ...
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How do I show the built-in heading styles in Word 2007's Quick Styles Gallery?

I've inherited a 200+ page Word 2007 document that uses lots of individually-formatted paragraphs rather than paragraph styles. I want to generate a table of contents, but before I can do that, I need ...
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How do I modify the default styles in Word 2007?

How do I modify the default styles in Word 2007? I need to change the style "Intense Emphasis" from blue to red. Updating the Normal.dotm works well and good when I open up a new 2007 document, BUT ...
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Is there a way to copy an Excel worksheet without copying all of the cell styles in the source workbook to the target workbook?

The title pretty much says it. I have an Excel document with tons of randomly named styles that I didn't create but that I want to copy a worksheet from. When I do, it drags all of those styles into ...
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How to blacken all sites in Firefox

Is there any way by which we can blacken all the sites which we open with a BLACK background color? I have tried Stylish addon for Firefox. But I want to do it for many other sites like Google News, ...
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How to add prefix to each paragraph of a certain style in MS Word?

Is there a way to add the same word (say 'Task') before each paragraphs of a certain style? Or before a group of paragraphs of the same style?

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