17.7.4.11 personal

This element specifies that the parent style, when in use in the context of an e-mail message, was used by default to format all message text from one or more users. [Note: This setting does not provide any additional semantic about the style, but can be used in the context of e-mail to automatically reformat the contents of the e-mail message while ignoring any content to which styles were deliberately applied (since this style was implicitly applied to message text without user interaction). end note]

If this element is specified on a style of any style type other than a character style, this element shall be ignored. If no style whose styleId matches the val attribute of this element exists or that style is not a character style, this element shall be ignored.

If this element is omitted, then the current style shall not be considered a message text style in the context of e- mail messages.

[Example: Consider a style defined as follows in a WordprocessingML document:

<w:style w:styleId="EmailText" w:type="character" >
  <w:name w:val="EmailText"/>
  <w:personal w:val="true" />
  <w:rPr>
    …
  </w:rPr>
</w:style>

This style specifies via the use of the personal element that this style is a style used to format message text in the context of e-mail. end example]

This element’s content model is defined by the common boolean property definition in 17.17.4.