I am using Word for Mac 2011 and I try to define a custom style which I want to apply on single words or parts of a paragraph among my document. But it seems to me that there is only whole paragraph styles. So if I define my new style, let's say underlined and a yellow background, the whole paragraph is directly set to this style.
Anyone know, how to approach this?
Ok, I just found out:
Select text > Format > Style > New
Then select "Character" instead of "Paragraph" for the option "Style type".
I was looking for the same thing today, but in Word for Windows (Office 365 version)
The solution is the same but the steps towards it are different:
Select the inline text
Open the Styles Pane and press the New Style button (left button on the bottom row)
"Character" is now an option for "Style Type"
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How can I change the delimiter in case of multiple authors (preferably) in the visual CSL editor.
Currently, the inline citation is as follows:
(Hawking 1966; Nußholz & Whalen 2019)
What I want is to replace & with ,:
(Hawking 1966; Nußholz, Whalen 2019)
I cannot find the respective field in the visual code editor. When searching through the code in the code editor, I found &only four times and I think none of the instances is related to what I want to change.
I've also tried to place the following code (as explained here) into my style but it is not working:
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" delimiter="/"/>
..
</names>
It's a little hard to answer this without seeing the style in questions, but in basic terms what you need to do is to completely remove and="symbol" from the name element for the in text citation.
In the visual editor, you'd click on the names of the in-text citation at the top right, then click on "Name" at the top left, and then in the bottom right find "and" (the second from the top under "Name" and set it from symbol to empty.
My language is right-to-left and not left-to-right like English.
When I'm trying to use the two columns layout (Page Layout->Columns->Two), the first column (beginning of the text) is the left column and it continues in the right column, although in my language the two columns should be swapped.
How can I fix it and swap the two columns?
From the Microsft Word ribbon (Menu), select "Page Layout"
Columns => More Columns
In the new window, check "Right to Left"
Check this link at Microsoft community
Go to the Page Setup dialog
Choose Layout tab
In the Section part change the Section direction from "Left-to-right" to "Right-to-left"
Click ok
In my MS Word, I don't get any LTR or RTL option in the Section part, it could be because I don't have any RTL language installed.
Hope that helps.
You should add language Arabic(Algeria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JYjNvvY4s
1 Microsft Word select "Page Layout"
2 Columns => More Columns
3 check "Right to Left"
Adjust List Indents function in Microsoft Word 2007 not working once the list goes past 10.
For heading 09 I open the Adjust List Indents function (By right clicking) and set the "Text Indent at" value to .05. This works. However for every heading after 10 following the exact same steps does not work.
This is not an indent issue, its the alignment in your numbering style. Take some time to study this:
http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/NumberAlignment2007.htm#NumberedLists
A related MS Word skill which will leverage your efforts by an order of magnitude is to learn how to define custom List Styles and assign them to custom Paragraph Styles. There is a very good tutorial here:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html
and the analagous bullet list version:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets20072010.html
I would add one level of efficiency to those tutorials:
You don't need to create a Paragraph Style for each list/bullet level. You only need to assign a Paragraph Style to the first level. When the Paragraph Style is applied to text, the List Style will be applied correctly to all levels based on the indentation of the list items.
When I make a change of style (Font or Paragraph) for a selection of text (example: change the font or text orientation of the selected line), Microsoft Word 2013 apply this change for the whole document in an illogical way.
To fix this issue I need to press 'redo (Ctrl-z)' and word 2013 apply the new style to the text I selected only (it's okay now) but I need to do it every time!
This process has become stressful for me and for my computer CPU especially if I edit a large document because Word 2013 change the style for the whole document.
I never had this problem with Word 2010 or 2007.
If you are applying style from "Style" group of "Home" ribbon, then application of these styles are based on "Style type:" e.g:
1) Paragraph
2) Character
3) Linked (Paragraph and Character)
4) Table
5) List
So, it depends which type of style you are applying and by default it apply on complete target.
The easiest way to save working of CPU and eliminating the stress, is to apply format using "Font" group of "Home" ribbon and if you rapidly use same formatting on different part of document then you can use Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V command to copy only formatting of one text to another.
I cut and paste Objective-C examples off Safari into Xcode but the formatting gets messed up. I know I can do multiple find and replace for { and \r, but is there a one button fix somewhere? Xcode option / plugin.
TextEdit plugin etc?
Answer: I created an AppleScript in TextWrangler
tell application "TextWrangler"
activate
replace "- (" using "\\r- (" searching in text 1 of text document "untitled text" options {search mode:literal, starting at top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false}
select find window
select text 1 of find window
replace ";" using ";\\r" searching in text 1 of text document "untitled text" options {search mode:literal, starting at top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false}
select find window
replace "{" using "{\\r" searching in text 1 of text document "untitled text" options {search mode:literal, starting at top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false}
select find window
replace "//" using "\\r//" searching in text 1 of text document "untitled text" options {search mode:literal, starting at top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false}
end tell
Control + I will do some degree of formatting on whatever text you have selected.
Re-indenting in Xcode 4 should solve most formatting issues you might have. However, if you're still not happy with the result, you'll have to go third-party.
I used to change my code formatting quite regularly. I'd go to update some old code, only to find that it was written using deprecated, now unfamiliar, formats.
I've been using Uncrustify to adapt old files to new formats. It's got quite a few options, but is still lacking. However, it should suffice for most cases.
Configure xcode's preferences such that tab always indents. Then go with whatever select-all-then-tab gives you for formatting. It is good enough and doing anything involving formatting that is not automatic is a complete waste of time.