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My favorite path is that (MS Word): 1. Click the tiny icon in the bottom right corner of the styles widget. It will open essentially the same widget, but as a
by Mikhail_Edoshin 11y ago
My favorite path is that (MS Word):
1. Click the tiny icon in the bottom right corner of the styles widget. It will open essentially the same widget, but as a vertical list and with a few additional controls; this is what we're after.
2. At the bottom there are three nearly identical buttons without labels. Click the 2nd one from the left (the tooltip says "Style Inspector"). This will open another floating window. We don't need it per se, but, again, it has extra controls that we need.
3. At the bottom of the window there is another set of unlabeled buttons. We need the first one (tooltip "Reveal formatting"). (Note that the icon is also very similar to the three icons in the previous panel.) Click it and you'll get the "Reveal formatting" panel. This is our target
4. Now close the other two panels. You're ready.
I write code to create reports in MS Word XML and I need this panel to see if I'm getting the code right (i.e that all non-obvious flags like "keep with next" are in place). I know no other path to this widget. And since I don't write such code often, I keep forgetting how I get to this panel. E.g. yesterday I tried to find it, but failed. It's good I saw you reply and made another effort to retrace the steps :)
I totally think a classic Mac-like menu consisting solely of text would provide better discoverability here.
- anon4 11y agoCan't you script it in visual basic and pin a button to one of the ribbons?
- Mikhail_Edoshin 11y agoI can put it directly to the ribbon (i.e. its available as a command in the customization options), but to do all this I need to know it exists (i.e. discover it), and the ribbon-style path is not very discoverable. I still wonder how I found it in the first place. As they say it here, it's probably God kissed me on the head :)
- grkvlt 11y agoMicrosoft Word makes it pretty easy to find commands. For your example, I did the following: Click on 'Help' menu, type 'reve', press down arrow to select 'reveal formatting' and the actual menu item (in the 'View' menu) is highlighted, press 'enter' to enable. This is in Office 2016 for OSX.
- m_mueller 11y agoThat's what I meant. It's not a MS Office but an OSX feature. AFAIK the windows version still doesn't let you search through its ribbons.
- aardvark179 11y agoTher s a powertoy for the windows version that does this. Why it wasn't mad part of the core ribbon UI I'll never know.
- grkvlt 11y agoOK, fair point. So is there nothing like that available in Windows? I had thought Win 7 and 8 had similar features, but maybe only for the desktop, not applications?