Making a restaurant menu with Styles

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I am confused about styles.

I want to make a restaurant menu with
1) the Entree style using one font, size and position.
2) the Price style on the same line as the item name. It will use a
different font and should line up with other prices above and below.
3) the Entree Description style of each item on one or two lines below each
item. This using another font and with a slight indent from the Entree
style.

How do I make the Price style sit on the same line as the Entree style?
 
You can't have two paragraph styles on the same line, but you could use a
character style for the price. You'll want the entree left-aligned and the
price right-aligned, for which you use a right-aligned tab stop. Give the
Entree Description style a right indent so that it will clear the prices (in
addition to the left indent you mentioned).

Another approach would be to use a two-column borderless table, with the
entree in the left column and the price in the right column in one row and
the entree description in the left column of the row below. You'd need to
set the vertical alignment of the entree-price row to Bottom.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I think I want to try this with the first option:

Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
You can't have two paragraph styles on the same line, but you could use a
character style for the price. You'll want the entree left-aligned and the
price right-aligned, for which you use a right-aligned tab stop.
Click to expand...

It seems that any price that I put on the Entree format line wants to have
the Entree font formatting. I can't clear the Price's formating to give it
a new Character formatting to give it a differnet size font. -- of course
I can just change the font manually on each price but that defeats the whole
put of styles.

And since the first post I've learned that some of the entree items will
have sub categories that need to have an Entree Cut, description and price
all on the same line. So it becomes even more important that I figure out
how to have three character styles all on one line with consistent
formatting between each text group.
Give the Entree Description style a right indent so that it will clear the
prices (in
addition to the left indent you mentioned).

Another approach would be to use a two-column borderless table, with the
entree in the left column and the price in the right column in one row and
the entree description in the left column of the row below. You'd need to
set the vertical alignment of the entree-price row to Bottom.
Click to expand...
I don't think I'm ready for this second approach.

Thanks,
Steve
 
A character style can override the Default Paragraph Font, but you need to
define the font (and font size) as part of the character style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
A character style can override the Default Paragraph Font, but you need to
define the font (and font size) as part of the character style.
Click to expand...

I'm finding that I can override the Paragraph style with the Character Style
except that the Bold or not Bold seems to be dependent on the Paragraph
style.

SteveK
 
Very likely if Bold is part of the character style as well as the paragraph
style, then they will cancel each other out.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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