See also
Excel2003 - Copying styles
Instead of being smart and checking Eileen's Lounge for a technique to copy a style (see link above), I decided that it couldn't be done, and stumbled off to create a new style. I wanted a
strike-through style that corresponds to my Word2003 character style "csStrikethrough", and just as in Word2003 I wanted it to have ONLY the characteristic of
strike-through.
csStrikethrough01.png
To my surprise, although in Excel styles can be accumulated,
components of styles can not be so readily accumulated.
In the screenshot above I am not allowed to create an Excel2003 style that has ONLY the characteristic of a
strike-through; I have to include a Font Style name, whatever that is (it is, I assume, not a typeface name, for I have chosen Algerian)
csStrikethrough02.png
As far as I could see, the style csStrikethrough must have a
typeface name, a
Font style, and a
Size before it can have the characteristic of
strike-through.
At this point in a diatribe I usually paste in a boilerplate script about how the MSExcel team did not communicate with the MsWord team, but I must be mellowing in my old age. It is possible that the Excel team working on styles had finished early and gone home before the MSWord team got around to devising a better way of implementing styles.
Cheers, Chris
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