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Open both workbooks. From the View ribbon, click View Side by Side. Deselect “Synchronous Scrolling” if needed. Alternatively, open both workbooks and from the View ribbon, choose Arrange All. Select Vertical or Horizontal, as needed.

Hope this helps.

I am replying to my own post in hopes it may help someone else. I found the rather simple answer – just point to the Theme icon on the Page Layout ribbon, and wait for the Tool Tip. When it displays, it reveals the theme in use. Ditto for colors, fonts & effects.

Hi, Andrew. That’s pretty cool code, and it works great. Thanks! I was hopeful the color names (and theme numbers) would display, but not enough to have you spend any more time writing code. I appreciate your willingness to offer this solution. 🙂

Office 2010 SP 1 includes updates to both the APA and MLA documentation styles to bring Word current with the most recent editions of those style guides. Just an FYI.

Not entirely up on my APA style rules, but since your two books have the same author, is displaying the title one of the “tie-breaker” rules that APA employs to distinguish between two titles with the same author?

I realize this was posted a few days ago, but for what it’s worth…

If you are building your citations using the insert > new source tab, I’ve occasionally run into trouble with authors if I try to type them all on the same line of the dialog box. If there are multiple authors, I always enter the first author, then use the Edit button within the dialog to add additional authors.

That said, what reference style are you using? On the References ribbon, in the Bibliography group, you have the option to set your reference style to APA, MLA, etc. Perhaps choosing a different style will help manage the data that displays in your in-line citation.

Finally, another option is to have Word input the citation (after you enter it), and then click the citation to display the ability to Edit Citation. In the resulting dialog, you may have the option to suppress author, year, and/or title.

Hope this helps.

If I put a book into Word’s References, then, when I cite it [intext], it should show the author and date, e.g.

(Kettner, Moroney, & Martin, 2008)

But two are showing the title as well:

(Schumaker, From Ideologies to Public Philosophies, 2008)

(Schumaker, The Political Theory Reader, 2010)

I tried deleting and re-inputting, but that didn’t fix it. How do I correct this, and/or why is it happening?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

That would seem reasonable, but the change in settings DOES stick on a third computer in the house. I can’t find any settings that are different between the one that works and the two that don’t.

Thanks!! It works! (Adding that command also indicated an alternative shortcut of CTRL+6).

Much appreciation coming your way! 🙂

~Val in sunny IL, USA

You can add the relevant command to your Quick Access Toolbar. The command is called “Unlink Fields”

Well, Gary, looks like we’ve both been introduced to a new feature. Thanks for taking the time to poke around and at least validate my understanding of this. Hope it’s warming up out east. Today is in the 30s; feels balmy almost!

Hi, Gary. I’ve actually been through that entire dialog and couldn’t really find what I wanted. I’m interested in revealing the Picture Style (from the Picture Styles group on the Picture Tools > Format ribbon) to determine the currently-applied style. As far as I can see, there is no indication as to an applied style – no box, or bolding, on the selected style. Makes it tough to validate a document that is supposed to have a certain style (for a class I teach). If you think of any other approach, I’m all ears!

~Val in chilly IL