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Stefan Blom
 
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Default Formatting changed to Char Char Char Char...

This is something that I've never heard about before. What type
of style is this "Char Char..." thing? Is it a character style? If so,
have you tried to select the paragraphs where it is applied and then
to press Ctrl+SpaceBar (which should remove it from text)?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Melissa" wrote in message
...
I actually saw that thread before posting mine coz that thread did

not solve
my problem.
The threads I've come across refer to styles with "Style + Char"

e.g.
"Heading 2 Char", "Heading 1 Char", etc.

The rogue style in my document does not look like that, it's just

"Char"
*12.

Any more ideas?
"Stefan Blom" wrote:

I can't take credit for creating the macro; MVP Cindy Meister did.
Anyway, as far as I can tell, the macro fixes the problem for the
Heading 2 style, only. It would have to be modified for the other
styles. See the following thread (the reply by MVP Klaus Linke):

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f49b2f7b5119a9

Note that you should test the macro on a copy of the document

first!

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Melissa" wrote in message
...
That was very useful, Stefan. I will definitely use it the next

time I
encounter that problem.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can use your solution for my

problem
coz my
ENTIRE document is in this "Char Char Char..." style, i.e.

Heading
1,2,3,4,
Normal, Caption, etc. ALL show this style. If I were to use

your
macro,
would it mean that the whole document will be in one style, e.g.

Heading 2,
only?

I am using Office 2003.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

See

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;902064
and

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl
..

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Melissa" wrote in message
...
I developed my document mainly using Styles. However, just

today, I
cut and
pasted some text from another document and reformatted them

using
styles.
Then, I realised that my whole document is "using" the style

"Char
Char Char
etc." which came out of nowhere. My styles still exist,

meaning
I
can select
text and reapply my styles. But after doing so, the style

name
still shows
as "Char Char...". Visually, my document still looks ok but

it's
annoying
that I can't remove this "Char Char Char..." style!

BTW, I reopened my document in Safe mode and the problem is

still
there.