"locking" style definitions

I have modified and created several styles in Pages documents.
Is there a way to keep these styles from being modified?
I want to make sure that my bumbling, yet well intentioned and charming office staff doesn't change the formatting in the styles we use.
I apologize if the answer is in the discussions already. I've looked but not found the answer.
Thanks

Richard,
To my knowledge, there's no way to make the styles absolutely tamper-proof. In thinking about your problem, the best I could come up with is to create a template with the styles palette hidden, then show your employees how to select styles from the contextual icon bar -- which doesn't offer a way to modify styles.
-Dennis

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Greetings-
I'm not sure if this is a good place to post a software question, but I having difficulty locking styles on Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac. When I try locking a document's styles on a PC it allows you to lock only the styles but allow users to edit anything else in the document. When I try to open the same document on a Mac the entire document is write protected.
I tried setting up the document protection using my Mac and it only gave me these three options: Protect for: Track Changes, Comments, Forms. I only want to protect the styles.
I hope this makes sense. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.
Kevin

tnganalyst wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions?
One suggestion is to ask in the Word forums at Mactopia, MS's site:
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/
Someone here may have an answer, but this is a forum for Apple products. As such, you may have a better chance of getting an answer there.
Good luck!

Can I include my own style definition in a .xss file for a custom laf?

I am trying to create a custom look-and-feel within UIX to get it as close as possible to
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Hi Jayesh -
The XSS language supports two different types of styles: named styles and selector-based styles.
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<style name="myStyle">You want:
<style selector=".myStyle">Note that I added the "." prefix to your style name to indicate that it is a CSS class selector.
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Embedding images without explicit style definitions

I'm designing an app with a big row of buttons. They are all identical except for the label and icon. Ideally I would like to be able to define them via ActionScript using a for loop. I'm stuck on how to embed the icon images though without doing a separate style entry for each button.
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Soundtrack Pro: Moving Mulitple "locked" style Clips at once.

Hi Guys, Thanks very much for your help with previous problems by the way.
I was wandering if it was possible to select multiple clips on multiple channels and move them all in bulk up the timeline? for instance, If I need to drop in a new interview half way through my podcast that was not expected, I dont wan't to have to move everything individually and lose the edit points and levels etc?
I do hope this is possible???
Cheers,
Dave.

Use the Forward Select tool.
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Quick paragraph style application transformation ... or reverse engineering a document the hard way?

Hi everyone,
I'm using Indesign 5.5 for Windows and have inherited a technical document with no styling applied (not even text threads or auto-pagination), but all the fonts are in the correct sizes and colours. So it looks ok in print, but trying to actually do anything with it is a nightmare. For obvious reasons I WANT to apply paragraph styles to the document so I can generate a new auto-updating TOC, maintain and add to it, and all the other good stuff that means.
My question is this - is my only choice to go through page by page and apply new styles (matching their current appearence) to every different heading and bullet point, or is there a nice easy way (or script) that i can use to whizz through the document for me, neatly applying a new style to each different font variety or element it finds (not altering their appearence) and leaving me with a nice list of styles I can rename (then take all the credit for? ha!) Basically take a document that's already been put together wrong, and make it right? I think this might've been imported into InDesign from something like Quark, hence the state it's in, but I don't have access to anything but this version. Any help you could offer would be great. Oh, and if (as I suspect) my only option is indeed to apply all the styles manually one line at a time, then feel free to point and laugh, I doubtless deserve it.
Thanks!
Phil

If you need to reproduce the existing page layouts, I'd suggest you read up more on what paragraph styles can do, before annihilating whatever layout and flow behaviors have been stuck on the content. For example, if level "X" headings always start at the top of a text frame, or top of a page, or even top of a right page, or top of a left page, a paragraph style property can do this. So you'd want to create and apply a paragraph that does this to those paragraphs before you thread text frames; the top of <whatever> frame paragraph property will keep the paragraphs in place.
It is possible to create paragraph styles with properties that behave crazily when they do what you define for them. For example, you can define a paragraph style that sets the style of the paragraph that's created when you press Enter/Return. You can also use the smartness built into the Next Style property. If a paragraph style, say Head1 is defined to create a new paragraph when you press Enter/Return, it can also apply its next style property to the paragraph follows Head1 in the same text selection. So, if you select a paragraph that's supposed to become Head1 (which defines its next style as BodyAfterHead1) and also select the paragraph that follows it, and then hold down Ctrl+Click on the Head1 style's name in the Paragraph Styles panel, Apply "Head1" then Next Style appears. If BodyAfterHead1 defines Body as its next style, and more than two consecutive paragraphs are selected, Head1 will be applied to the first paragraph, BodyAfterHead1 will be applied to the second paragraph, and Body will be applied to the third and following paragraphs.
So, you'll be investing in setting up the Next Style property for paragraph styles, and selecting as many consecutive paragraphs as needed for applying a pattern of styles that agrees with your next style definitions. Each time you use this feature, you're collecting benefits from your investment.
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Search Google for terms like "InDesign apply style and next style," "InDesign place multipage pdf script," "InDesign installing and using scripts," "InDesign paragraph style keep options," and "InDesign start paragraph options," without quotes, for informative links to anywhere on the Web, as well as on these Adobe forums. To limit the searches to Adobe forums only, include "forums.adobe" without quotes in the search query.
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Peter
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Script editor ICM 6 - "...don't own the script lock"

I'm running UCCE 6 (ICM 6.0) and I just installed the ICM Internet Script Editor on my computer.
When I try to save changes to a script I get the following error:
"You can not update the script because you don't own the script lock"
When I open the script locks, under file/script locks, it shows that I have it open.
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mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
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mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
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I presume you mean the text was typed in with the caps lock key on so it is all uppercase. There are a number of ways to do this, but which to use depends on waht you have. Do these headings have a style assigned to them? They should, and if they do all you need to do is edit the style definition to use Bold. If not you can do it with Find/Change and GREP, but we need to know if there is any punctuation and whether there is any other text inthe same paragraph, or if the titles stand alone. A screen capture would help, (and take it with non-printing characters visible, please). You can embed it in a post using the camera icon on the web page like this:

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mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
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mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
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font-size:11.0pt;
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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
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Folks - our Windows server disk filled up. Cisco ACS 4.2 threw a fatal error and locked the database.
I've cleared up space on disk and reloaded server. ACS processes start, but sockets do not. It appears that database is still locked, and CSMON is shutting down the sockets.
Any ideas on how to unlock database and bring up GUI? Following are logs.
CSMon 11/28/2010 17:48:57 E 0092 0592 0x0 ODBC Operation faild with the following information: Message=[Sybase][ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Anywhere]Disk full 'Fatal error: disk full C:\Program Files\CiscoSecure ACS v4.2\CSDB\ACS.log' -- transaction rolled back, SqlState=S1000, NativeError=-304
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CSMon 11/28/2010 17:49:08 E 0092 0208 0x0 ODBC Operation faild with the following information: Message=[Sybase][ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Anywhere]Connection was terminated, SqlState=S1000, NativeError=-308
CSMon 11/28/2010 17:49:08 A 0932 0208 0x0 SL:isKeyExist - execution failed
CSMon 11/29/2010 11:56:19 E 0092 1392 0x0 ODBC Operation faild with the following information: Message=[Sybase][ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Anywhere]Connection was terminated, SqlState=S1000, NativeError=-308
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CSMon 11/29/2010 11:56:19 E 0092 1392 0x0 ODBC Operation faild with the following information: Message=[Sybase][ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Anywhere]Connection was terminated, SqlState=S1000, NativeError=-308
CSMon 11/29/2010 11:56:19 A 0147 1392 0x0 SL:setValue (string) - execution failed
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CSMon 11/29/2010 11:56:21 A 0457 1392 0x0 CSMon Shutdown: Cleaning up Synchronisations stuff.
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CSMon 11/29/2010 11:56:23 A 0288 1392 0x0 ******************************************
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Working with Character Styles in Photoshop CC

Hi,
I upgraded to Photoshop CC and was quite excited about the Character Styles Panel. But now, I'm completely puzzled.
It almost looks like Adobe didn't finish the feature before shipping 14.1.2
1. I can't reorder the character list? Why use a different list implementation than that for "Layer Comps?"
2. I want to copy and paste a character style from one selection to another (Basically the workflow from Apple Keynote). It should be possible with character styles, but it just didn't work:
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   - I'm pretty sure it has to do with style of the original text not being directly overwritten from "None", but there is no feature to "bake" style-formatting either.
3. I can't remove and restyle the Character-Style "None". But when I accidently assign "None", it is defined as 12px Arial Black . So the default-style HAS a style definition and should therefore be editable like the other character styles.
I'm completely blow away how non-intuitive the whole process is. I never had problems to understand character styles in InDesign, Pages, Word and Illustrator. But in Photoshop is either completely broken or non-intuitive.
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Your sure your using photoshop cc on windows vista?
I was under the impression that photoshop cc would not even install on windows vista.
What version of camera raw do you have?
In photoshop under Help>About Plugin does it list Camera Raw and if so which version is it?
(click on the words Camera Raw to see the version)
Camera raw doesn't work if it's a camera raw file or some other file type such as jpeg or tif?
What camera are the camera raw files from?
Officially camera raw 8.3 is the latest version of camera raw that will work on windows vista.

How we can lock No more than one user can use the table at a single time

Hi Abapers,
0) which function modules to lock & unlock a table.
1) When you execute the program, we can check if there is any lock on this table. If yes, the user should be able to only view the table contents and not modify.
2) If there is no lock, then lock the table and go into change mode.
3) On exiting from the program, unlock the table using the function module.
4) more than one user can't modify the table just display.
Note: If there is any lock, display message saying table is locked.
Plz help me for this requirement.
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Nani

Hello Nani
Have a look at the lock object EMMARAE (<i>Lock MARA and MARM/MAKT exclusively</i>) in transaction SE11.
Inspect the F1 help for field <b>Lock mode</b>:
DE ENQMODE
Short Text
     Lock mode
Definition
     Defines how to synchronize table record access by several users.
The following modes exist:
     Exclusive lock
         The locked data can be read or processed by one user only. A request
         for another exclusive lock or for a shared lock is rejected.
     Shared lock
         Several users can read the same data at the same time, but as soon
         as a user edits the data, a second user can no longer access this
         data. Requests for further shared locks are accepted, even if they
         are issued by different users, but exclusive locks are rejected.
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If you want to lock a standard table search whether the table is used in lock objects (<i>Where-Used-List</i>). If it is a customer table you have to create your own lock object (including two function modules: one for enqueuing and the other for dequeuing).
The lock modules can be found in menu <b>GoTo -> Lock Modules</b>.
Given these lock modules the logic should be quite clear after starting the program:
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Multiple paragraph styles in one line

I'm creating a training manual and I am having trouble with paragraph styles. Here's an example of what I am trying to do:
"The Dog walks up the hill"
In the above example, I have created a style for the bolded text and connected it my table of contents. The idea is when I create and update the TOC, "The Dog" will be the entry with the remaining text omitted from the TOC. The issue I am having is because the text is on one line, I cannot have multiple styles. I've tried writing just "The Dog" and then either changing the style or deleting the paragraph break to connect the text below to the main line. Once I erase the paragraph break and the text is on one line, only ONE style is maintained. Now, I can modify the character style; however, because the paragraph style is still the one connected to the TOC, the entire paragraph appears in the TOC.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I've searched everywhere to no avail.
Thank you very much for your support.

ajmiddle18 wrote:
I'm creating a training manual and I am having trouble with paragraph styles. Here's an example of what I am trying to do:
"The Dog walks up the hill"
In the above example, I have created a style for the bolded text and connected it my table of contents. The idea is when I create and update the TOC, "The Dog" will be the entry with the remaining text omitted from the TOC. The issue I am having is because the text is on one line, I cannot have multiple styles. I've tried writing just "The Dog" and then either changing the style or deleting the paragraph break to connect the text below to the main line. Once I erase the paragraph break and the text is on one line, only ONE style is maintained. Now, I can modify the character style; however, because the paragraph style is still the one connected to the TOC, the entire paragraph appears in the TOC.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I've searched everywhere to no avail.
Thank you very much for your support.
It depends on the breed of dog.
Is the paragraph always a single line?
Is this dog the leader of the pack? IE, does the phrase you want to keep always begin the paragraph? If so, then you can separate the dog from the pack in the TOC. One way is to surround the pack with a unique character or marker in the main text, like End Nested Style Here, - one after dog, and another after hill, and create a paragraph style for the doggie paragraph to use in the TOC. This paragraph should contain a nested character style that applies microscopic text properties, like paper character color, font .1pt, and horizontal scale .1%. The TOC entries should use nested paragraph styles; the source paragraphs need you to insert the End Nested Style Here markers. The nested style definition in the TOC paragraph styles should apply no character style through the first end nested style marker, then apply microscopic through the next end nested style marker. This will shrink the walks...hill text to an invisible speck, so small that it shouldn't interfere with tab leaders and page-references.
Another approach is to use a single-row table for the heading, with the dog pent nicely in the left cell, and the pack in the right cell. Each cell contains a paragraph, so only extract the dog to the TOC.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign hide part of paragraph in toc knowhowpro," "InDesign suppress part of paragraph in contents knowhowpro," "InDesign two paragraph styles on one line," and similar phrases without quotes for some good discussions and a variety of approaches that include layers, anchored frames, and conditional text.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign conditional text," and "InDesign nested paragraph styles," without quotes for details.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3206266 has a long discussion that may shed some additional light.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

How can I change the paragraph style of the Table of Contents entries themselves?

From what I can see, all Table of Contents entries are the same font, size, indentation and layout when the book is viewed in Portrait mode on an iPad. I have long subheadings in my Table of Contents, and they get truncated!
How can I modify the style definition of the TOC entries themselves so that they will display in a smaller font size with less indenting, etc.?

Modifying the TOC: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2752?viewlocale=en_US
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Hi Guys,
a few users are editing and uploading a shared MS Word document. This works great except that several times a day, styles are messed up and lose their numerings, indents, etc.
Only work around is to use the Organizer to copy/paste styles definition from a previous stable version of the document.
They all have Office 2013 and none is using the Web App, but access the document through the explorer view.
Every used styles are attached to the document (no .dot) and set to not update automatically.
Sure copy/pasting from other documents could cause this, but even when document has been cleaned up and is in fine tuning with no copy/pasting from other sources, that could happen.
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KR,
Nico

Hi Nico,
Since the document is shared to multiple users, there can be the possibility of the issue occurs during the co-authoring.
By default, there is no option can be set to change style of a document stored in SharePoint site by some rule or automatically.
If you have versions enabled, could you please check them and find out when the document has been changed styles, and test the issue again.
The issue could be caused by client sides or improper user behavior.
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Changes to [No Paragraph Style] causing unwanted style overrides

Hi fellow InDesigners
I'm using InDesign CS6. I'm working with long documents that were originally created in previous versions (CS4 and possibly earlier). My standard workflow for these jobs is to do the bulk of the text formatting in a newly created, bare-bones, single column document. First, I load the paragraph and character styles from the template, and when I'm done I copy and paste the formatted text back into the template for final layout and typesetting. This used to work fine in CS4, but in CS6, all my paragraphs show the plus sign in the Paragraph Styles panel, indicating that they have been overridden. They should be identical, since I imported the styles from one file to the other. The overrides include drop cap alignment, and even more obscure things like 'IdeoSpaceBehavior' and 'Diacritic Positioning'.
It seems likely to me that this problem is due to Adobe having changed the definition of the mysteriously ubiquitous '[No Paragraph Style]' style between versions. The template file has carried over the definition from CS4, but the newly created working files have the new definition, and since [No Paragraph Style] is not included when importing styles from one document to another, the inconsistency remains. Copying and pasting text with no overrides in one document, shows overrides in the other.
So the simplest solution I can think of, would be to change the [No Paragraph Style] in the template to match the definition of new CS6 documents. Is this even possible? My Googling thus far suggests that [No Paragraph Style] is pretty much untouchable.
Is there nothing for it but to create the template files again as new documents in CS6?

No worries Michael. Yes, I vaguely remember the change too.
My understanding is, [No Paragraph Style] is very much a style—a paradoxically named style to be sure, but a style nonetheless. Check out the [Basic Paragraph] style definition by double clicking on it in the Paragraph Styles panel. It's style definition is: '[No Paragraph Style] + next: [Same style]'. That's it. Minion Pro 12 point, with auto leading—and every other conceivable paragraph attribute—all handled by [No Paragraph Style]. Adobe needed some defaults, and that's what [No Paragraph Style] is—just a default style. You can never escape it either, since every style, no matter what it's based on, has [No Paragraph Style] as its most senior ancestor.
So that's essentially my problem. Adobe has, in their wisdom, changed the [No Paragraph Style] style between versions, so that a document originally created in an earlier version and a document created in CS6 have different [No Paragraph Style] settings. I'm pretty confident this is the cause of my problems.
Lots of my paragraph styles inherit from other styles. Why would I not want that? My custom 'Paragraph' style has lots of other styles based on it—from typesetting variations, to quotes, lists, etc. But the 'Paragraph' style itself is based on [No Paragraph Style]. As I said, you can't really escape [No Paragraph Style].

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