Need Easy Microsoft Word Help

[fulloflead]

I'm sure this is easy for someone else, but I'm a graphic artist and don't know Office very well.

I have a Word document that's basically a list of about 100 horror movie entries that look like this:

March 9
THE HOST (Magnolia; limited)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Du-na, Ko Ah-sung
A mysterious monster emerges from the Han River and terrorizes the people of
Seoul while a family sets out to rescue the young daughter it has kidnapped.
Website: www.hostmovie.com

with one return between each movie listing.
I'm TRYING to turn the list into something that looks like this:

March 9
THE HOST (Magnolia; limited)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Du-na, Ko Ah-sung
A mysterious monster emerges from the Han River and terrorizes the people of
Seoul while a family sets out to rescue the young daughter it has kidnapped.
Website: www.hostmovie.com

without having to go through and change every one. I've tried "Auto Format" and it did absolutely nothing.

Can anyone help?
Can someone do it for me if I send them the Word Doc?

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[Grim/Don]

I'm sure this is easy for someone else, but I'm a graphic artist and don't know Office very well.

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The Format painter button is what ya need! Looks like a little paintbrush near the top of the screen. Highlight the lines that you have the way you want them (your first example), then clink at the beginning of the section you want to format.

If you have a bunch to do (list a list of 100 movies...) double click the format painter button (after highlighting the 'good' lines), then just click at the front of each listing.

Should do the trick for ya!

 

[fulloflead]

The Format painter button is what ya need! Looks like a little paintbrush near the top of the screen. Highlight the lines that you have the way you want them (your first example), then clink at the beginning of the section you want to format.

If you have a bunch to do (list a list of 100 movies...) double click the format painter button (after highlighting the 'good' lines), then just click at the front of each listing.

Should do the trick for ya!

Hmmm.
So, I'll have to click the front of each line for each style?
Make a "headline" size, highlight it, click each headline.
Make a "sub-head" size, highlight it, cliick each subheadline.
Etc.
Sounds like at LEAST 200 clicks...

THANKS, but STILL tougher than I thought Word could do.

I thought I'd be able to format the top entry the way I wanted it and then choose an option and then have it apply that style to everything else.

If that's my best option, Word isn't as smart as I thought it was.
It's STILL about half as much work (thanks again) as it would be manually,
but I was hoping for more. Maybe I was hoping for a formatting miracle.

Thank you, though.

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[Grim/Don]

Hmmm.
So, I'll have to click the front of each line for each style?
Make a "headline" size, highlight it, click each headline.
Make a "sub-head" size, highlight it, cliick each subheadline.
Etc.
Sounds like at LEAST 200 clicks...

Nope. You should format the 1st paragraph/section the way you want it. Then, highlight the whole section, click the paintbrush, then click right at the front of the next papragraph/section. The whole paragraph should then be formatted like the 1st one. (as long are your sections are organized out in the same layout, you should be able to format them all with one click each)

Or... set up the first one, copy the format to the second. Then highilight 1 & 2, copy to 3 & 4. The 1-4, do 5-8... You'll have it done in seconds that way.

The most important thing is to have a consistant layout, so Word knows what to do with each line. If you've added an extra line in someplace, it could throw the Format Painter off.

 

[fulloflead]

Nope. You should format the 1st paragraph/section the way you want it. Then, highlight the whole section, click the paintbrush, then click right at the front of the next papragraph/section. The whole paragraph should then be formatted like the 1st one. (as long are your sections are organized out in the same layout, you should be able to format them all with one click each).

That's not working. It just leaves the paragraph the same. I even tested on two paragraphs I'm positive are the same number of lines, returns, etc.

Or... set up the first one, copy the format to the second. Then highilight 1 & 2, copy to 3 & 4. The 1-4, do 5-8... You'll have it done in seconds that way.
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How do you copy a format?

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[Grim/Don]

Aha... I had to go inot Word and fiddle with it to get it to work (I'm more used to Excel)

Set up your 1st paragraph the way you want it, click the paintbrush, then highlight the WHOLE next paragraph you want to copy the format to.

If that doesn't work, email the file to me and I'll hook ya up.

grim_don AT yahoo DOT com