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Nope. My own experiment failed. I’m going to keep researching this.

My understanding is that all of the ‘codes’ are stored in the paragraph mark at the end of each paragraph. There is a run-length-designator that points the codes at the target object.

To test this theory, create a sentence. Make part of it normal. Part italic. Part Bold. Then make a following sentence.

Delete the paragraph mark at the end of the first paragraph and observe the results.

 

I concur. I sometimes found the reveal codes useful. But in general, I prefer the select and do paradigm. It works for me.

The transition from WP to Classic Word and then New Word, and now InterWord is not complete. IMHO users still don’t understand the basic change in paradigm from WP to Word (any version).

WP was a ‘do until told to stop or do something else or in addition’ paradigm. It used a mechanical typewriter paradigm. Thus, if you look at the reveal codes you’d observe something like ‘caps on……….caps off’. That told the text editor to use uppercase between the on and off codes. You could nest an almost infinite number of instructions (codes) in WP, if you could keep track of them – thus the reveal codes mode.

Word (the windows versions) on the other hand used the object-oriented paradigm of ‘select and do’. Thus in Word for Windows, you selected an object (text, graphics, etc.) and told Word what to do to it – Bold, Italicize, Copy, delete, indent, etc..

WP was conceived in the DOS era and had to have WYSIWYG bolted on – and WP struggled with that process, taking so long that they opened the door for Word for Windows. We all know how that turned out.

Word for Windows was a reworked version of Word for DOS (the first computer program I bought from a store – version 5.0!) that had WYSIWYG baked in from the beginning. I used Word for Windows 1.0 on Windows 2.01 (a run-time version of windows that predated Win 3.0) beginning in 1989.

I wish more people understood the difference in paradigms – it might make their transition from WP to Word easier. But it is a good thing that WP for Windows exists, is viable, and might be a solution for your computing needs. Choice is GOOD.

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Wheel_D, Cybertooth

Styles are probably the most powerful aspect of Word (any version) and might also be the least appreciated if not known.

One of the key shortcomings of Word, IMHO, is the inability to perform a general or partial reset of the built in styles.

Susan, it is likely that you made a permanent change to your normal or paragraph style that is causing your problem. Maybe not.

What could have occurred is that at some time you changed the line spacing and somehow updated the style to include that new spacing. One of the factors that you can set in each style is the style of the paragraph that follows once you press the return key. Thus, if you changed the style that follows your current style, even if you change the current paragraph, the next time you press enter you’ll get the permanent style applied to the next paragraph.

See the attached file for the specific dialog in one of the current versions of New Word.word-screenshot

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Still Anonymous

I’m just jealous.

I concur. I did not feel welcomed by this site not having the option to answer ‘never’. Perhaps ‘rarely’ or only when something happens that requires a reboot. I never turn off my pc. And I feel the new management here is losing touch with some of us and paying too much fealty to the crowd mentality of security at any cost and for every reason.

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doriel, Cybertooth, Cee Arr

Silent Running. Bruce Dern, 1972. Prophetic environmentalism?

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Mr. Austin, Charlie

John Carter of Mars. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. And the Disney movie.

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OscarCP

I’d like to start a new topic but don’t know how.

The new Macs announced by Apple today interest me. I’d like to learn about Apple’s update policies and procedures compared to MS. Is there an existing forum here or can someone start one!

Was Alien, and its successors, a Science Fiction movie or a Horror movie set in space?

Was The Blob a Science Fiction movie or a Horror movie with the antagonist from off world?

What is Science Fiction?

Cheers!

Best Science Fiction Series:

1. Lost in Space
2. Space 1999
3. Twilight Zone
4. STTOS
5. STTNG

Best Science Fiction Movies:

1. Star Wars
2. The Martian
3. Gravity
4. 2001 A Space Odyssey
5. Logan’s Run

Best Science Fiction Movie Yet to be Made:

1. The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov

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OscarCP

Microsoft should be able to answer this question – accurately and precisely. What do you think they do with all of the telemetry they collect? What is the main purpose of the telemetry? They know exactly how much damage their updates do – and then they measure if they should pull it back or revise it – and how fast they need to work to revise it.

Or they could simply test it better before deploying it. They must’ve calculated over the years that ex post facto revisions to updates was more effective than extensive beta testing pre-deployment. I bet they have the data to support that. I wonder if they ever published it?

There had to be a reason to dismiss all of the beta testers and go with telemetry. Dr. Watson on steroids.

RamRod

Very useful advice for users of all levels. Thanks for the reminder.

I bought a new Lenovo Flex 5 (WinX v73.2 Home) earlier this summer. I shut updates off. I am not experiencing blue screens. I am enjoying a relatively uninterrupted computing experience.

Keep the mask; Lose the updates (until you are ready).