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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / October 2003HELP Stalled on Style problems
OH, HELP PLEASE HELP. I talked a co-worker into requesting her Word 2000 be upgraded to Word 2002. After the new load today, whenever she opend existing docs using existing templates (created in Word 2000) she is getting bullets on the Styles that didn't have bullets and no bullets where they used to be. I feel responsible, but can't figure out what is happening, even though I have 2002 also!!! We've got huge projects due and everyone is yelling at us!!!! What happens if you press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > OH, HELP PLEASE HELP. I talked a co-worker into requesting her Word 2000 be > upgraded to Word 2002. After the new load today, whenever she opend [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > even though I have 2002 also!!! We've got huge projects due and everyone > is yelling at us!!!! My apologies I think I accidently sent my reply to email address. Here it is again, in essence. Nothing really changes in the text or the style when doing Ctrl A(Edit) CtrolQ(Reset Paragraph). All styles are based on No Style to untie any link to another style, In Templates and Add-ins Update Styles in Doc is unchecked. I can make this aberration happen by creating a New doc with the template, formatting text with the styles in questions and saving. Then when I check Auto Update Styles in Template and Add-ins Word changes the styles in my doc. By unchecking Auto Update I can put the style back to what it was. I think that tells me something but I'm clueless as to what! Also, when I close the file and reopen it Word changes my styles. I am truly in dire need. I've got huge deadlines tomorrow and am just lost on this. Thanks for any help! > What happens if you press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > even though I have 2002 also!!! We've got huge projects due and everyone > > is yelling at us!!!! "Automatically update" in a style and "Automatically update document styles" in the Tools | Templates and Add-ins dialog are death on numbered/bulleted styles. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > My apologies I think I accidently sent my reply to email address. Here it > is again, in essence. Nothing really changes in the text or the style when [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > everyone > > > is yelling at us!!!! But that is what is soooo confusing!!!! Several of these styles are NOT numbered or bulleted, Word is making them that way, (granted a couple ARE bulleted and those change to numbers and vice versa.) But why do some styles not change at all, and only others? I'm pretty good at sleuthing, but would love some ideas of where I might dig this out. BTW, it has to be associated with the template I would think because I get the same behavior fromt he template that my co-worker does on her PC. > "Automatically update" in a style and "Automatically update document styles" > in the Tools | Templates and Add-ins dialog are death on numbered/bulleted [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > everyone > > > > is yelling at us!!!! Hi Wana I think you need to treat that template as corrupt - I suspect you won't dig out any precise 'reason' apart from a general idea that Word is shuffling styles and especially style - numbering links around. When Word updates styles, it seems to also import all list templates from the template, and it is probably some old and unused list template that is doing the damage - but there is nothing you can do about this. To solve you co-worker's immediate problem, she needs to put the template somewhere it can't be found (or temporarily rename it), open the document (when hopefully there will be no template found to update styles from) and uncheck the 'Update styles' box. Leave it unchecked - even with a perfectly sound template there are other problems it can cause, and if you want to update styles after a template change you can do so explicitly (no guarantees on numbered styles, however). Then remake the template afresh in Word 2002. SignatureMargaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word > But that is what is soooo confusing!!!! Several of these styles are NOT > numbered or bulleted, Word is making them that way, (granted a couple ARE [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > > everyone > > > > > is yelling at us!!!! |
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