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In Microsoft Word, is there a way to conditionally format the cell properties of a MS Word Table (like in Microsoft Excel)?

Background: So, in Micrsoft Excel, you may colorize or affect the design/style of a cell via the "Conditional Formatting" feature that is present in the standard/plain vanilla version of ...
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In Microsoft Word, is there a way to assign particular Bullet Styles automatically to a Heading Style through the Design Features (Themes and Styles)?

What? My goal here is to have Microsoft Word automatically adjust the Bullet List Style in a conditional manner, where the condition is the specific heading style (i.e., heading 1, heading 2, heading ...
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Styles based on Normal display a white background, unrelated to the Borders & Shading

In Word, when I write text in a table cell with a colored background, I see a white background behind my text. I supposed it had something to do with the Border & Shading options, but it was ...
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Shrink line height in Notepad++

To increase the line height in Notepad++ you can change the Brace Highlight Style or the Line Number Margin to a larger font size as described here: How do I fix line spacing in Notepad++? But ...
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How do I automatically generate colour styles in LibreOffice Calc using VBA?

I want to be able to run a macro to automatically create a set of named styles that change the cell background colour. I tried this, but it doesn't work: REM ***** BASIC ***** Sub ...
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Excel 2016 changed text style when opening

We are using Microsoft Excel 2016 on Windows 10. We are using tables with filled information. All text and numbers are normal black Style. After some changes in document (editing text or numbers) we ...
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How to disable "Modify Style" confirmation dialog in Word 365

tl;dr How can I turn off "Modify Style" dialog box in Word 365? How can I make Word always re-apply clicked style to the text. Without making any weird questions or confirmations in between? ...
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Non-Conventional MSWord Formatting Using Baselines

I'd asked this question "yesterday" over on Graphic Design SE, but I was prompted that SuperUser would be more useful in what I'm trying to accomplish. My question is regarding the use of ...
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Is there a way to create persistent bullets in Power Point?

I have added three custom bullets to the Style Master Text placeholder, however, I would like to have a choice to choose one of those three bullets on the fly. These come in a custom font. This will ...
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Heading 3 font size appearing slightly larger than Heading 1 and 2 of same size

Word 2016. Have lengthy experience (fighting) with multi-level lists. Recently Heading 3 is appearing slightly larger and bolder in the text and Table of Contents though the multi-level list settings ...
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I want my reference list numbering in square bracket numbering format with vancouver style in word 2010. reference is looking like [1] 1. bla bla [duplicate]

I want use the Vancouver style for my research article. i have installed vancouver.xsl file and all the citations within the text and bibliography are appearing correctly. but the bibliography list ...
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Make Style "Spacing" dependent on the following Style (in MS Word)

Is there a way to make a Style1 dependent on the following Style2? I have a document with text (Style1, with 12pt spacing after) and some quotes (Style2). If there's text in Style1 and then after it ...
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Latest WhatsApp desktop application has look & feel of Playstore "App" than Classic Windows application. Have they stopped the other kind?

I had downloaded the WhatsApp Windows Desktop App from Whatsapp website & was using it. It had the Classic Windows Application Look & Fee. Yesterday, it forced me to upgrade it but during the ...
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Merge two ODT-files with the same style names

I have two text documents with formatted text. I want to merge these: I need to insert document B into document A as a chapter. Unfortunately they define the same styles. Before: Document A: Document ...
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Word: Images/Symbols as a style in a paragraph

I'm creating a word template for creating various documents. I'd like an image to be part of a predefined style. (It's just a small red rectangle, so if it's inserted as a character (e.g. a large ...
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Using tab to change font style

I have Word Doc I am working on and I have a heading with a style set up. I want the heading to have a time displayed at the end of the line with different formating so that the heading is in bold and ...
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Microsoft Word Styles; Apply only text color and spacing?

I'm new here! I love using the styles in MS Word, super helpful keeping the document consistent with formatting. My only issue is that some of my text have different indentations. So when I apply ...
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How do I change the order of Styles options being displayed in Microsoft Word?

I've customized the Styles in Word and have used this Template for years. On 12/12/22, the order of the Styles has completely changed so that the Styles I use most frequently (Title, Heading 1, ...
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Why is Word 2019 not saving changes that I make to a bullet Style after I close my document?

I've made multiple bullet styles in Word 2019. For one of them, I want to adjust the position of the bullet slightly. According to the value for bullet position (accessed by right-clicking on the ...
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How do I change the color and remove the underline of all hyperlinks in a Word document *without* changing the font, italization, etc.?

I have a very long document (a book) that I wrote collaboratively in Google Docs. Bringing it into Word, this great explanation gets me most of the way to where I want to go. But it strips out the ...
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custom fields style in office word

I have a word file that I use Zotero for refrencing. Zotero Use field in the word to insert my references. all my paragraph use normal style. when i insert the refrence in the end of any paragraph I ...
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Is it possible to map strings obtained by a macro, which contain XML tags, to existing Word styles?

From a macro, I'm obtaining a string like the following: <p>D. W. Arning et al. <i>Mixed Mode–Mixed level Circuit Simulator</i>. (2011). Ngspice. [Online]. Available: http:..., ...
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LibreOffice Windows Horizontal Ruler

I'm running Windows 10 21H2 and LibreOffice 7.3.4.2. I love LO for creating documents but when trying to reformat some existing document, not so much. I do everything I can to eliminate pre-existing ...
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Switch from Internet Explorer to Edge Chromium / Chrome

I'm working on a legacy application created with HTML 4 and PHP 5, my purpose is to run the application on Edge chromium, the style of the application is good on internet explorer but when I tried to ...
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In a word document, how to type Hindi style numerals in Arabic parts and maintain Arabic style numerals in English parts?

I was wondering about typing numerals in word in Arabic numerals while typing in English and in the same document when I shift to Arabic typing, the numerals would be in Hindi numerals without ...
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How to save same ODT file with different styles in libre office writer

I have this odt document. I need to save it with two different styles. One for reading (which includes sans font, bigger size ..) and one for printing(with smaller serif font). I created two templates ...
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Heading and Normal styled text on same line in MS Word

Is it possible to add Heading 1 and Normal styled text on the same line in MS Word (apart from using tables)? http://www.wordbanter.com/showthread.php?t=9944#2 Type the "Heading 1" text on ...
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Attach Excel cell styles to theme file

If I create a new workbook not from a template and then go Page Layout > Themes > select the custom theme I want, it updates the colours and font but does not update the 'Styles' gallery on the ...
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How to revive cleared highlighting in Notepad++

In Notepad++, I highlighted here and there where I needed. Then I wanted to clear one of them, but mistakenly cleared all highlights. I don't remember where I highlighted, so it is impossible to ...
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Bug in Microsoft Word 2019 Affecting the Spacing Before a Heading 1 Style at the top of a page

I'm working in MS Word 2019 with Styles. When I modify the Heading 1 style, I set the spacing before at 18 pt. and I also select a page break before. This results in a Heading 1 always being at the ...
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Is it possible to edit the stylesheet of FireFox Developer Tools?

Is it possible to edit the visual layout of FireFox's developer tools? I'm talking about the tools themselves, not the webpage that the tools are inspecting. I want to narrow the large gap between the ...
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Trying to download threads from a forum that's shutting down, but HTTrack isn't saving images/menu/colors and page links correctly

NotebookReview is shutting down at the end of the month, and there are several threads in their forum that I want to download to my PC before all the information is gone forever. I am trying to use ...
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LibreOffice Writer: Reset formatting to the current style?

I have a chunk of text that is set to some style "Section Title". I messed with some settings in that chunk of text (e.g. font, line spacing), and now the text no longer matches what is in ...
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How to display windows instead of program icons in the Windows 11's taskbar?

In Windows windows are displayed in the taskbar (or at least were -- before 11). With deactivating of grouping it was even possible, that every window got a separate "block". When a program ...
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MS Publisher -- Can I selectively apply a style to text within a paragraph?

I'm formatting a textbook in Microsoft Publisher, and need to show new vocabulary in bold. I was hoping to use a Character Style like I would in MSWord, but I don't see that in Publisher. It seems ...
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Changing the font family for all styles in Excel

Excel has styles like "Normal", "Bad", "Good", "Calculation" etc. You can change the font family for each style by right-clicking on it and choosing Modify → ...
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In LO Writer, how to set Ctrl+6 as keyboard shortcut for the Heading 6 style?

There are shortcuts for headings 1 to 5 styles, but I find no option in the "Customize" dialog to set a keyboard shortcut for the Heading 6 and higher styles. How to do it?
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TOC with different page alignment for same style in MS Word

I have added a TOC to my document automatically based on the styles across the document. Strangely some page number alignment is different for the same style (screenshot below). I have tried changing ...
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Styles marked "Always Hidden" keep appearing in the Styles Pane

I have clients who have yet to master the idea of working with styles. Consequently, I create templates intended to expose them to only a few styles that I ever want them to see when using either the ...
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Style template that makes files update their style automatically

I am writing a book made of many files. I design each file with the same styles (e.g. for headings and text body). Suppose later I want to change some styles (e.g. the heading font size), and keep it ...
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Is it possible to define a Word style that contains other styles?

In a book I am writing, I would like to have an "algorithm" environment, where an algorithm is surrounded by a border and has a certain font. I would use a style for that, however, inside ...
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Firefox on macOS: weird layout (like missing styles) on all websites since upgrade to Firefox v91?

Since I upgraded my Firefox from 90.x to 91.0, all websites I visit seem to suffer from messed up styling. Three example screenshots, but it's not restricted to any particular site, it happens ...
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Word Importing HTML "Paragraph" Styles

Hoping someone has an answer. Been working on it on & off for a week. Goal: Convert an old online blog (for the owner) into 10 Word docs totaling 3200 pages. Each part of each blog has 1 of 5 ...
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How to get "new" Figure/Table labels to retain linked Heading Style in Word 2016

I have a Word 2016 template (for this purpose, we'll call it Template 1) in which I have defined a multi-level list for use in appendices linked to Headings 7, 8, and 9 (Appendix A, A.1, A.1.1, ...
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Is it possible to prevent ad-hoc formatting in Microsoft Word?

Our company targets blind people. To support screen readers, the documents must be properly styled with predefined semantic styles. However, some of our employees keep using ad-hoc styles (i.e., they ...
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MS Word: Set style font size to default / from underlying properties

When I create a style in Word, the font size of the style gets set to whatever the font size of the text I've selected is. e.g. if I create a style while 13pt text is selected, the new style text will ...
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Word, Make Style Match "Based On" Style

I am trying to build a proper Table of contents in Word and would like to show 5 levels. I have a problem in that my TOC 5 has a bunch of customizations in it, and no matter what I do I can not get it ...
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How to make caption text style different from the caption label and numbering?

I want my image caption to look like this: I make the caption's style to align center, font size 10, font TNR, and Bold. I want the caption text to have the same style but without the Bold. I have to ...
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Restore built-in list styles gallery

I removed the list styles and can't get them back. I have tried restoring the global template Normal.dotm, but it doesn't work.
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How to format part of a figure caption in MS Word bold, and the other part regular?

I would like to generate figure captions as displayed in the image below. The figure caption should contain 3 parts: Part 1: Automatic numbering including chapter number and figure number. Font: ...
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