Hi Klaus -
Please don't get the wrong impression - It isn't so much the linked styles
that is the problem. It's that when styles are linked but you don't know it
and didn't create them & don't even know that styles are involved or what
they are and you've got direct formatting interjected... that the issue
starts to eat you - and your doc - alive. (Or at least approaches the level
of panic I tried to infer in that last sentence.)
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
On 7/21/06 10:58 PM, in article ,
"Klaus Linke" wrote:
Hi John,
Thanks, I will play a bit with your info.
Sounds like one more reason to hate linked styles...
Regards,
Klaus
"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote:
Hi Klaus:
Yep: I have heard of it :-) Any combination of Automatic Update, Keep
Track of Formatting and Linked Styles will do this :-)
What's happening is that he's painting a "format" into a linked style that
is set to automatically update. When he does that, the entire document
updates :-)
As Bob says, the user's better off learning to use Styles properly,
because
the inside of that document is rapidly turning into format salad and it
will
be very unstable.
Cheers
On 22/7/06 8:00 AM, in article ,
"Klaus
Linke" wrote:
Hi Tim,
I have not heard of such an issue before. Which version do you use?
You didn't mention the formatting change that was made to the paragraph
you
copied the format from.
Even better would be some reproducible steps to see the problem.
Does the change occur on copying, or on pasting (as your description
suggests)?
Regards,
Klaus
"Tim" wrote:
I've got a very long document with many heading levels. When I try to
use
the format painter to transfer the style of one heading to another, I
get
an
unwanted change in format. First, I click on the heading that has the
format
that I want to copy, and then click the format painter icon on the tool
bar.
Sor far, so good.
Next, I click on the heading that I want to recieve the format. It gets
the
new format. So far, so good. Unfortuantely, the first heading that had
the format being copied is mysteriously changed to a new format.
Not good. To prevent this from happending, I've turned off all of the
autocorrect and autoformat things I can find, but the probelm persists.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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