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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / May 2006What is my file reformatted in another computer?
I have a long document (172pages) in which I defined some of my own styles such as 'Body' (24pt line spacing). However, on my boss' laptop, the line spacing is changed to single space; other headings have been changed too. We both use Windows XP sp2 and Microsoft Office 2003. My file reads all right on other computers. Can anyone suggest some way to solve this problem? What could be the causes? Thanks a lot!! forgot to say that I don't use template (.dot file). First, you do use a .dot file. You just don't know it. Every document in Word is based on a template; that is how it works. If you don't pick one, it is based on normal.dot. I suspect your document has an option checked under Tools > Templates and Add-Ins to update styles. If this is correct, uncheck it. Then give it to your boss.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. >I have a long document (172pages) in which I defined some of my own > styles [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Can anyone suggest some way to solve this problem? What could be > the causes? Thanks a lot!! Aha, you are right. I meant I don't use any personal .dot files. I'll give it to my boss and see. Thanks a lot. Works! Appreciate your help! > Works! Appreciate your help! If that means that you copied your normal.dot to your boss' computer -- I doubt that's the remedy Charles had in mind ... ;-) Greetings Robert Signature/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word I did what he suggested. :-) I unchecked all the boxes related to 'Automatically update' stuff. It is still very strange: even if I leave those boxes checked---automatically update, my file works on all other computers. Those computers have not modified the styles in their normal.dot templates. That automatically update box should pretty much always be left unchecked, mostly because of the problem you ran into. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. >I did what he suggested. :-) I unchecked all the boxes related to > 'Automatically update' [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > checked---automatically update, my > file works on all other computers. Thanks. I now can understand the file was automatically updated on my boss' computer; but still don't know why they are not on all other computers. Aamixy |
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