[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I can't see why it would, but perhaps the "someone else" who's opening the
document does *not* have "Define styles based on your formatting" disabled?
FWIW, see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html.

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"Jane" wrote in message
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Right, but do you think that would cause the Table Grid style to change to
paragraph styles when someone else opens the document?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If Normal.dot becomes attached to a document, it's usually because the
original template is unavailable.

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"Jane" wrote in message
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Yes, Blank.dot is my firm's custom template for blank documents.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Is Blank.dot a custom template (Normal.dot is the template on which
a
Blank
Document is based)?

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"Jane" wrote in message
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Yes, I looked at that and it is cleared. It seems to be happening
on
an
automated process (i.e., TOC update, Index update, save (doc id
update)).
Can't pinpoint it though. I did notice today that the template
changed
from
Blank.dot to Normal.dot. Could this be a template issue?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you haven't already, clear the check box for "Define styles
based
on
your
formatting" on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools |
AutoCorrect
Options.

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"Jane" wrote in message
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In a new document cleanup (large, legal financial documents),
we
apply
the
Table Grid style then directly apply the formatting we need
(i.e.,
borders,
decimal tabs, indents). Lately, we have found that the tables
in
our
documents suddenly change from directly applied formatting to
various
styles
(i.e., TOC1, Heading, Index, Balloon Text). There doesn't
seem to
be
any
rhyme or reason. At first, we thought that it happened upon
TOC
update or
Index update. Has anyone seen this?