Are doing the outlining for the book yourself?
I thought you are sending them text files, and they'd have a freehand/whatever dude for that
Ken: I do the basic styling, and that is then used to generate some of the book's layout. the styling are "hints" to the automated processing and pre-production software.
Roy, I believe you can already do this from within Word.
Goto...
Modify style > Format > Shortcut Key.
Steve, can you list the exact steps in Office 2007?
I can't find it.
OK, I found it.
- press the big round icon on the top left
- press word options
- select customize on the left
- select "keyboard shortcuts: customize" button on the bottom middle
- in the categories scroll all the way down to "styles"
- select the desired style to apply on the right
- hit the desired shortcut inside the "Press new shortcut key" field
- press "assign" on the bottom left
Amazingly intuitive.
Thanks for letting me know!
There's a less convoluted path.
1. Right-click on the style. (Do this either in the Styles gallery in the Home ribbon, or on the Styles tool window if you have that open.)
2. Select Modify... from the context menu
3. Click on Format...
4. Select Shortcut Key... from the menu
5. and 6. same as your last two steps.
Step 3. is pretty counter-intuitive - what does a shorcut key have to do with a style's formatting? But that aside, this has always seemed like a much more direct approach to me. And it's a couple of steps shorter than the route you found.