Dear all

I am very desperate, so I post my problem here.

I am creating a template in W2010. I want only a set of limited styles to be available for the user to select. Ideally, the styles should be selectable from the styles pane. So far nothing new I know.

What I could do:

Add the styles to the quick style pane > downside, I can not display the styles as a list, so with a selection of a few styles, it just looks horrible and is confusing the user.

Modify my styles via recommended styles and hide the ones I don't wanna display > downside, as soon the user inserts an autotext which contains a hidden style, then this style re-appears in the styles pane. After inserting some auto texts, the user ends up with a lot more styles than initially hidden. So again confusing.

Modify the styles via restriction > dowside, if I select LIMIT FORMATTING TO PERMITTED STYLES, then I get what I want, but if the user again inserts an autotext which contains a restricted style (because I don't wanna the user to use it), then obviously this style is not available and my autotext looks crap.




So, anyone can tell me what best I should do to provide the user with a set of own created styles? In the old W2003 I could create tool bars and drag the styles I wanted to it. Very easy. How to do it in W2010 in a pragmatic and user-friendly way?

Thanks a lot for all hints!

Greez
Chris.

Hi Chris

Is there an option to re-create all your Auto text entries in your new template to an allowable style, or are there too many?

Tony

Hi Toni

No I don't think this is practicable. The thing is, I have created all styles that I use in the template individually. Body text, table text, table headers, headings, lists, etc.

The autotexts contain elements such as safety messages, notes, and tables. Those elements contain styles which I don't want to show to the user - they are already defined in the autotext object and don't need to be applied specifically. The user only should get styles for the different heading levels, the lists, body text, etc.

The quickstyles would be ideally for this purpose. I could modify my own ribbon tab to display the quickstyles. But the quickstyles don't allow a list view like the styles pane.

no one a clue on how to best achive this? is ribbonX and XML really the only way?