I would suggest you post in the numbering NG.

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"Gem_man" wrote in message
...
PS

The orginal document has the bullet level linked to the correct style, as
does the teplate on which it is based and so does the the Style that gets
copied over.

But after the style has been copied, the level is linked to "No Style"

Could this be a clue? and if so what do you think is causing it?

Thanks

"Gem_man" wrote:

Thanks for the reply Suzanne

The problem is that the copying of the styles is being done
programatically
and doing the Ctrl Q thing is not really an option as I want this to
appear
perfect each time the style is copied across.

There are several issues that I am getting to the bottom of but the
thing I
cant get my head around is the following:-

The style of the bullet in the orginal document (no manual formatting is
present) remains unaltered after the new style has been applied which
has a
different bullet style attached to that style.

In other words the original bullet style overides whatever is applied to
it
latterly.

I have followed an excellent article by Shauna Kelly to the letter but
still
have no joy.

How can the original format persist after a new style has been applied?

Many thanks



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Instead of going to Format | Style, try just selecting the paragraphs
and
pressing Ctrl+Q to reset the paragraphs to the default style
formatting.
It's possible that the bullets were added as direct formatting in the
source
document.

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"Gem_man" wrote in message
...
I would be most grateful for assistance in a baffling problem.

I have a multipage document that among other things contains two
areas
that
are bulleted.

When I copy the styles from a style template that I have made, one
set of
bulleted text shows without its bullets.

I thought there was a problem with the styles that I was copying
over, but
if I highlight the bulleted text, and go to formats and then style
the
the
bullets magically appear again. Even if I do nothing to the style
screen.

The styles name for this text that I am copying over matches the
style
name
of the problem text and does show as bulleted on the styles dialog
screen.

I have, to my knowledge, removed any manual formatting from the
problem
area
prior to copying over the styles

I have spent hours on this and cannot understand what I am doing
wrong.

Any suggestions? Thank you