See:

Text that was formatted with a paragraph style is formatted with a
character style when you paste the text to another document in Word
2003 or in Word 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=902064

A macro solution is suggested at
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/cindymeis...p.htm#CharStyl.

Note that it might be easier to recreate the template from a fresh
blank file. Make sure to apply paragraph styles to entire paragraphs
(not to selected parts of a paragraph).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Adrian" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Whenever I save my Word doc as a template (.dot) it adds a new style
to the
style list called "Char Char1 Char Char Char1 Char". In the Modify
Style
window, it says the style type is "paragraph and character".
Furthermore,
there are a number of instances of text where this style is applied.

This problem is repeatable.

I can delete the style from the style list without seeming to
adversely
affect the text to which it is applied, but it reappears when I open
the
file again.

I thought that I could get rid of this with a registry tweak I found
in
another post, but it seems that that was for a slightly different
problem as
it doesn't solve mine.

Any ideas? After a long time setting up my templates this is not
what I
need.

Cheers,

Adrian

MS Word 2003 (11.6568.6568) SP2 on Windows XP SP2