Thank you MikeGondek for your answer.    I didn't find any green circle in the Ai window, as you can see from the screenshot attached. What you see is the Window which shows up when I open a old file. Even if this file very small, Ai takes up all the room in my 27" screen. I would like that, from the opening, Ai takes only a part of the screen, so I can look at another window, say a LaTeX or Word window to copy from.    P.S. I didn't find the answer button, so I answered to myself.  ... View more

I have downloaded lf.corullon's script. After some bad experience in the past, I was reluctant to download an unarchiver from an unknown website to open the rar file, but I found a free one (The Unarchiver) on App Store. The script was very easy to install and to use, and it works. Thank you all for your help. LF, I will not forget your Paypal account. André ... View more

To winterm. I am not able to use LF Corullon's script because I have never used scripts. I would not no where to begin. To Bob. They do not say "Not based on anything", they say "Based on [Sans]". So it is enough to change provisionally the definition (or non-definition if you like) of [Sans], during the time the styles are charged, then to restore the original definition of [Sans]. After that, you are free to copy the styles in any file you like. This would do no harm, since the internal definition of [Sans] has surely a different name: "sans" is the French word for "without". In TeX or LaTeX I could almost do that, and TeX gurus could certainly do it. ... View more

I have checked some styles, and most of them are based on [Aucun style], that is [No style]. And there is no way to change the style [No style]. Bob's idea is good, I would even say evident, but some publishing houses prefer not to use it. Alernatively, Adobe could make [No style] modifiable. Jane, do you suggest that I select all of a chapter, for instance (this seems possible, but the text in the tables is not selected) and I change the language in the character menu, in the same way as if I wanted to make all the text bold? Are you sure this not harmful? Will this operation be sufficient to get French hyphenation (my main concern)? The alternative is feasable: Delete all the unused paragraph styles, and modify the remaining styles (only 100, instead of more than 600) by hand? Will the result be the same for both ways? Or is one of the ways preferable? ... View more

But I do want to apply the French to the whole document! In only one move. I cannot really use layers, because the French translation is usually 10 or 15% longer than the English text and the original page layout is lost after 2 or 3 pages. It would be difficult to change the language for every style, as there seems to be more than 200 or 300 styles in the document I have received. What I am looking for is a kind of "mother of all styles" which should exist somewhere in the software. By modifying this mother style, I would be able to modify at once all the existing styles. Thank you, Jane, for allowing me to clarify my point. ... View more