I have encountered problems like yours many times when using Word 2003 and
before. They usually involve the presence of unlinked styles (often called
char styles because the styles appear in the list with a regular style name
plus ", char" after it. Styles break when you apply a linked style to part
of a paragraph or paste text of a different style into part of a paragraph.
(Their presence does not mean the document is corrupt, but leaving char
styles alone, as many suggest, for me has meant flaky behavior such as styles
changing appearance with or without changes in the settings, style names and
appearance changing (headers suddenly become index 2), auto numbers on
headings disappear, etc., and eventual corruption usually in the styles or
auto numbering. ) One of the first things I do to long multiauthored
documents is clean up the styles and remove char styles. An unlinked style
is still "linked" to its parent style and deleting it will delete the parent
(except for normal and headings 1-9). Unfortunately, one fix is what you are
doing: apply only your wanted styles consistently, remove unused styles and
char styles, and fix anything that breaks. Another is to apply only your
wanted styles and then copy all bu the last paragraph mark (or all but the
section break if you are copying by section) into a new document based on
your template (or normal.dot if necessary).
Another possible cause, even with no char styles present, is that the style
your table paragraph styles are based on may be "unused" in your document.
Deleting it could leave your table paragraph styles based on the normal
paragraph style and taking settings from it. To avoid this, find out what the
based on styles are and avoid deleting them.
You mentioned that the template is damaged. When you use open and repair,
where does Word say the errors were that it repaired. Word repairs errors
but may not repair the cause. These problems would show up in files based
on the template. So if the errors are in autonumbers, delete and rebuild the
numbering scheme. If in styles, try recreating your user-defined styles or
rebuilding the template based on a new, clean document based on normal. And
so on.
HTH,
Pam
Nellie Nobody wrote:
DeanH suggested assigning the correct styles to the tables first, then
deleting the superfluous styles. I responded, "As I said below, I'm deleting
styles that are unused. The tables already have the correct styles."
I may not be a Word MVP, but I am far from a novice Word user. Yet I've
never seen this problem before. I have hundreds of these docs to copyedit and
clean up, have tried everything I can think of, and am desparate enough for
an answer to come here.
If you have any suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them. But don't scold me
for starting a new branch when I did respond to the existing one.
It would appear to me that someone has. You should continue in that branch
of the thread.
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