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Formating of document changes after reopening
I am converting some old letters from a works program to Word 2007 and then
saving as 97-2003 format. After reconfiguring all my maring and page formats and saving, when I go back into the document everything is triple spaced. I am unable to reformat back. I have 100s of documents to update and need help. TY -- Liz |
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Formating of document changes after reopening
The only thing I can think of that would cause formatting to change upon
opening those documents would be if "Automatically update document styles" is enabled, and the style-based spacing is set to triple spaced in the default document template (usually Normal.dotm unless you've set it to somethign else). Since this is set on a per document basis, I don't know of any way of turning it off for any given document, since the document needs to be opened to turn it off, and once it's open, it's already too late to turn it off, because the damage is already done My first stab would be to rename Normal.dotm so that Word creates a new one when Word is next opened. At the very least, since Word doesn't create triple spacing when it creates a new Normal.dotm, that should prevent that particular aspect of the problem from occurring. You might also want to edit the new Normal.dotm so that the formatting contained in whatever styles are being applied to the converted documents conform to your expectations and needs. That way, when a document with "Automatically update document styles" is opened, the formatting that is automatically applied wouldn't be so much at odds with what you want. Once open, you can turn "Automatically update document styles" in any particular document by clicking the Developer tab, Document Template tool, then removing the check next to "Automatically update document styles". I hope this helps... -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Lizzyblue" wrote in message ... I am converting some old letters from a works program to Word 2007 and then saving as 97-2003 format. After reconfiguring all my maring and page formats and saving, when I go back into the document everything is triple spaced. I am unable to reformat back. I have 100s of documents to update and need help. TY -- Liz |
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