I took your comments on board and spent a few hours last night working on
a new template, trying to recreate the problems. Things went from bad to
worse with a number of crashes occuring. Everything was pointing to something
in the tabs causing a number of related problems (I also have trouble with
numbered headings deciding to add and lose tabs, and change the indent
setting).
During one crash I got a message to carry out a Microsoft Update check
and discovered that Mozilla Firefox (my browser) was blocking Active Server
Pages (I think that was what it said, but by now it was very early in the
morning).
The upshot is that I have now downloaded and installed SP2 and other
updates for Word 2003. I will make a start later on today and see if that has
made any difference. I will keep you posted.
Thanks for your ongoing help.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Default tab intervals *are* document-wide, and in a template, they would
affect all documents based on the template. It is very worrying that a
setting of this type would not be saved. I'm wondering if the template is
somehow corrupt.
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"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
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Something else that I have just noticed that could be connected.
One of the first things I did when setting up the template was to go to
the
Tabs dialog box (Format|Tabs menus) and set the Default Tabs stops to 0.
I
just went in to check and the default settings have reset back from 0 to
1.27
cm again.
Settings like this are not document-wide or system-wide, they are a part
of
paragraph formatting (which is best set through the style). Sorry, don't
have a clue as to what is going on for you, though.
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"Frogmouth" wrote in message
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Thanks Suzanne and Charles for your quick responses:
I set the the Header and Footer up through Styles and Formatting. I
typed
in
the settings that I wanted.
Something else that I have just noticed that could be connected.
One of the first things I did when setting up the template was to go to
the
Tabs dialog box (Format|Tabs menus) and set the Default Tabs stops to 0.
I
just went in to check and the default settings have reset back from 0 to
1.27
cm again.
Once again thanks for your help.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I'm assuming you changed the tab stop settings in the Header and Footer
styles to begin with and not just in the header and footer paragraphs.
Did
you use the ruler (which can be rather approximate) or make the
settings
in
the Tabs dialog?
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"Frogmouth" wrote in message
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Can someone out there in Microsoftland give me a clue as to what is
going
on
with an errant template.(no, that should read several templates).
There
are a
number of problems but I am currently only trying to solve one.
I was in the process of setting up a new template for a User Manual.
In the Header and Footer I set two tabs; one at 7.5cm centred and one
at
15cm right. So far so good.
I then went to set up the Header font and in the process noticed that
the
tabs had decided to move. They now read 7.62cm and 15.24. Word seems
to
have
a habit of changing various settings for no apparent reason.
I then looked at the Footer settings via 'Reveal Formaating' and sure
enough
the tab settings had changed. However, this time to 15.24 - the 7.5
was
OK.
BUT, when I went into 'Modify Style', the Tabs dialog box had
completed
the
change and the tabs were at 7.62 and 15.24.
If anyone can help I would appreciate it very much. If any more
information
about other settings is required I can provide it.
As a matter of interest I am an experienced Tech Writer with many
years
working with FrameMaker. I have been using Word on this latest
contract
for
about 18 months but have to report that it is giving me serious
grief.
This
current problem may seem minor but it is only one of a number. I
spend
a
lot
of time correcting the fromatting of the documents because formatting
(and
in
particular style settings) just seem to change.
I think I have narrowed it down to something to do with the Tab
settings
but
I am not sure.
Any help would be appreciated.