Or:
is there any documentation from the MS regarding the usage of individual built-in styles that I can incorporate into SOP?
Word has a real abundance of built-in styles. I guess a lot of them is there for some arcane and compatibility reasons. But many of them must be there for immediate usage by the end user: like the Heading 1
style.
Of course, one can always create a new style whenever one needs to, and never caring about the build-in styles. But then one forgoes the nice magic behind changing the style set, and maintainability of the formatting, when someone else will try to use it.
All Word tutorials I can find, clearly state the purpose of the Heading X
family of styles. And this is the end of what I can learn on this matter. I can't even see a consensus about what style to use for "normal" paragraph.
What is the use of the styles
List Continue X
? They don't contain any numbering scheme, and by default a list continues the previous list based on the same numbering scheme (at least in Word 2007).What is the intended use of the
Caption
style? The font size is rather small. Is it intended as a manual footnote text?What is the use of the
List Paragraph
style? (Note: it doesn't contain any numbering scheme attached to it). Is it intended to use as in thedescription
environment in LaTeX)?What is the difference in usage between those paragraph styles:I've made it a separate question Which style to use for simple paragraph text in Word?Normal
,Normal (applied to an object)
,Normal (applied within a table)
,Plain Text
,Body Text
,Body Text 2
,Body Text 3
?
To narrow down the hunt, I've assumed, that the only styles that are intended for direct use are those, that are included in the default Style set
. But still, the default style set on Word 2007 contains 136 styles... To further narrow down the list, I've cross-referenced them with the list of 132 styles mentioned by the WdBuiltinStyle
enumeration. This way I've come to this list of 52 distinct styles:
<Style name> <Type> <WdBuiltinStyle>
Heading 1 Paragraph wdStyleHeading1
Heading 2 Paragraph wdStyleHeading2
Heading 3 Paragraph wdStyleHeading3
Heading 4 Paragraph wdStyleHeading4
Heading 5 Paragraph wdStyleHeading5
Heading 6 Paragraph wdStyleHeading6
Heading 7 Paragraph wdStyleHeading7
Heading 8 Paragraph wdStyleHeading8
Heading 9 Paragraph wdStyleHeading9
TOC 1 Paragraph wdStyleTOC1
TOC 2 Paragraph wdStyleTOC2
TOC 3 Paragraph wdStyleTOC3
TOC 4 Paragraph wdStyleTOC4
TOC 5 Paragraph wdStyleTOC5
TOC 6 Paragraph wdStyleTOC6
TOC 7 Paragraph wdStyleTOC7
TOC 8 Paragraph wdStyleTOC8
TOC 9 Paragraph wdStyleTOC9
Caption Paragraph wdStyleCaption
Title Paragraph wdStyleTitle
Default Paragraph Font Character wdStyleDefaultParagraphFont
Subtitle Paragraph wdStyleSubtitle
Strong Character wdStyleStrong
Emphasis Character wdStyleEmphasis
Light Shading Table wdStyleTableLightShading
Light List Table wdStyleTableLightList
Light Grid Table wdStyleTableLightGrid
Medium Shading 1 Table wdStyleTableMediumShading1
Medium Shading 2 Table wdStyleTableMediumShading2
Medium List 1 Table wdStyleTableMediumList1
Medium List 2 Table wdStyleTableMediumList2
Medium Grid 1 Table wdStyleTableMediumGrid1
Medium Grid 2 Table wdStyleTableMediumGrid2
Medium Grid 3 Table wdStyleTableMediumGrid3
Dark List Table wdStyleTableDarkList
Colorful Shading Table wdStyleTableColorfulShading
Colorful List Table wdStyleTableColorfulList
Colorful Grid Table wdStyleTableColorfulGrid
Light Shading Accent 1 Table wdStyleTableLightShadingAccent1
Light List Accent 1 Table wdStyleTableLightListAccent1
Light Grid Accent 1 Table wdStyleTableLightGridAccent1
Medium Shading 1 Accent 1 Table wdStyleTableMediumShading1Accent1
Medium Shading 2 Accent 1 Table wdStyleTableMediumShading2Accent1
Medium List 1 Accent 1 Table wdStyleTableMediumList1Accent1
List Paragraph Paragraph wdStyleListParagraph
Quote Paragraph wdStyleQuote
Intense Quote Paragraph wdStyleIntenseQuote
Subtle Emphasis Character wdStyleSubtleEmphasis
Intense Emphasis Character wdStyleIntenseEmphasis
Subtle Reference Character wdStyleSubtleReference
Intense Reference Character wdStyleIntenseReference
Book Title Character wdStyleBookTitle
So when you limit your document to the build-in styles, changing the style set affects only those 52 styles.
I would append to this list the following built-in styles, which are absent in the Scheme, so the formatting is (regrettably) unchanged when you apply the scheme (that is the part that is unique to those styles and is independent from any possible base styles):
Endnote Reference Character wdStyleEndnoteReference
Endnote Text Paragraph wdStyleEndnoteText
Footer Paragraph wdStyleFooter
Footnote Reference Character wdStyleFootnoteReference
Footnote Text Paragraph wdStyleFootnoteText
Hyperlink Character wdStyleHyperlink
Macro Text Paragraph wdStyleMacroText