[Tony Jollans]

I'm afraid you're out of luck if you don't have a backup. The new (2007)
Themes cannot be saved in 97-2003 format and Word converts all the theme
references to absolute colours, fonts, etc. and the change is irreversible.

When you saved as .doc, did it actually overwrite the .docx file you had?
Off the top of my head I didn't think it would do that unless you explicitly
downgraded the document which wouldn't be accidental.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Charles.Lindsay" wrote in
message ...
Hi - I've come across a frustration you may be able to help me get past.

I have a heavily formatted document using styles in a way that showed off
how themes can change it live, using the Theme selector (Page
Layout=Themes). I (accidentally) saved it as Word 97-2003 file format,
and
despite saving it again back in Word 2007 format, the doc's theme now
can't
be changed.

I created another doc to test how themes break when saved in Word '97-2003
format, using lots of styles. I saved one copy as Word 2007, and another
in
Word '97-2003 format, then opening both and examining the styles with the
Style Inspector (Home=Styles=Styles 'launcher' (arrow/square at
bottom-right of Styles group)='Style Inspector' (from the middle icon at
the bottom of that work pane.)

The only difference I could see between the two docs is in the Font
style -
the 2003 format version explicitly names the font -- "(Default( Candara
14
pt Bold ...", while the Word 2007 version references a style --
"(Default)
+Heading 14 pt Bold ..."

Even if I re-apply a style (like "Heading 1") from the style selector
(Home=Styles='Heading 1"), I *still* can't use the Theme selector.

So, my question is this: Can I rescue my heavily formatted document? How
do I change the explicit font names to style references? Can I even
un-set
the explicit font name?

Thanks!
Charles.