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Infestation of Char Char formatting
Recently documents based on one of our regularly-used Word templates have
been beset by the styles changing to Char Char. The affected documents seem to originate from one user's computer. For example, on Friday I worked on a document where all our usual styles were correctly applied. He then made some minor changes and returned the document to me. When a paragraph is selected almost anywhere in that document, the style box on the toolbar and the selected style in the formatting pane show Char Char. In this 70 page document, the only place where the original styles are still listed seems to be the header, footer and TOC. The attributes of this Char Char style are Normal + Font: (Default) Verdana, 10pt, Line spacing: Exactly 12 pt, Space After: 8pt. The attributes of our Normal style a Font: (Default) Arial, 11pt, English (U.S.), Left, Line spacing; single, Space After: 6pt, Widow/Orphan control. The paragraphs that are listed as Char Char still look as they should stylewise -- Heading 1's, bullets, etc. look as they should and there is no sign of Verdana in the document. I tried using the Find and Replace function to root out the style. I tried searching for style Char Char (which was listed in Style dropdown) but Word says "search item not found." When I first encountered one of the affected documents last week, I tried to overcome it by pasting all content into a new document based on template using paste special as unformatted text but the Char Char still infested the new document. I think it may have come over with a graphic. I've googled the MS Word newsgroups to see if anyone has a solution for this issue but thus far I've found none. In our case, we are seeing all the styles being replaced by Char Char rather than the more frequent problem of having Char appended to Style names. Any suggestions on how to remove the Char Char from documents and how to stop it occuring in the future? We are using Office 2003 on Windows XP. |
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