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Styles not formatting properly
Forgive me for my lengthy post, but I thought I would provide enough
information for you to help me determine why my styles are not formatting properly. First, I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Now for the details. My coworkers and I have our Normal.dot set up with the exact same styles and style attributes. We also share a document template that has also been set up with the exact same styles and style attributes as those found in the Normal.dot file. I know, we don't need both, but the document templates are used primarily by the engineers, not the members of my team. Anyway, if I open a new document (File | New), type 3 sentences, then apply the Note style to the first sentence, the term Note is left justified. If I apply Note 2 to the second sentence, the term Note is indented 1/4 inch. If I apply Note 3 to the third sentence, the term Note is indented 1/2 inch. This is the formatting we have applied to each of the three Note styles we've built. Unfortunately, the formatting doesn't work the same in a document that was created using the document template I mentioned above. Note 1 is left justified, as it should be, but Note 2 and Note 3 are really misaligned. Note 2 indents 3/4 inch and Note 3 indents slightly more than 1/4 inch. In other words, Note 2 is indented more than Note 3. This is baffling because the document template has the exact same styles and style attributes as Normal.dot. Using Organizer, I copied the two Note styles from Normal.dot to the current document's styles and tried to re-apply the two styles to the text in the document. Not surprisingly, there were no changes in the positioning of the Note terms. Two questions - 1. Considering the styles in the document template were built with the exact same style attributes as those in Normal.dot, why didn't Note 2 and Note 3 align properly - the way they aligned in the blank document when Normal.dot was used to format the three sentences?? 2. Normal.dot formatted the text correctly in a new document (File | New), but when copied to the current document's styles and applied to the text, the text would NOT format correctly. It was misaligned. Can someone please tell me why?? Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. ----------------- getravel (Mike) |
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Some avenues you could explo
1. What styles are the styles based on? Is Note based on Normal? Is Note 2 based on Note? Etc. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html 2. How did you apply the indents? In the Format | Paragraph dialog? Or was Bullets and Numbering implicated in any way? Is there a chance that some bullet/numbering influence could somehow be affecting these styles/paragraphs? 3. If you reattach the template (in which the styles are defined correctly) with "Automatically update document styles" checked, does this make any difference? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Forgive me for my lengthy post, but I thought I would provide enough information for you to help me determine why my styles are not formatting properly. First, I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Now for the details. My coworkers and I have our Normal.dot set up with the exact same styles and style attributes. We also share a document template that has also been set up with the exact same styles and style attributes as those found in the Normal.dot file. I know, we don't need both, but the document templates are used primarily by the engineers, not the members of my team. Anyway, if I open a new document (File | New), type 3 sentences, then apply the Note style to the first sentence, the term Note is left justified. If I apply Note 2 to the second sentence, the term Note is indented 1/4 inch. If I apply Note 3 to the third sentence, the term Note is indented 1/2 inch. This is the formatting we have applied to each of the three Note styles we've built. Unfortunately, the formatting doesn't work the same in a document that was created using the document template I mentioned above. Note 1 is left justified, as it should be, but Note 2 and Note 3 are really misaligned. Note 2 indents 3/4 inch and Note 3 indents slightly more than 1/4 inch. In other words, Note 2 is indented more than Note 3. This is baffling because the document template has the exact same styles and style attributes as Normal.dot. Using Organizer, I copied the two Note styles from Normal.dot to the current document's styles and tried to re-apply the two styles to the text in the document. Not surprisingly, there were no changes in the positioning of the Note terms. Two questions - 1. Considering the styles in the document template were built with the exact same style attributes as those in Normal.dot, why didn't Note 2 and Note 3 align properly - the way they aligned in the blank document when Normal.dot was used to format the three sentences?? 2. Normal.dot formatted the text correctly in a new document (File | New), but when copied to the current document's styles and applied to the text, the text would NOT format correctly. It was misaligned. Can someone please tell me why?? Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. ----------------- getravel (Mike) |
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Suzanne,
you are a genious. I haven't fixed the problem in my document yet, but after reading the link you provided in your response, I know EXACTLY where the problem lies. Thank you so much!!! I'm off to share your guidance with the rest of my team. Thanks again!!! -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some avenues you could explo 1. What styles are the styles based on? Is Note based on Normal? Is Note 2 based on Note? Etc. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html 2. How did you apply the indents? In the Format | Paragraph dialog? Or was Bullets and Numbering implicated in any way? Is there a chance that some bullet/numbering influence could somehow be affecting these styles/paragraphs? 3. If you reattach the template (in which the styles are defined correctly) with "Automatically update document styles" checked, does this make any difference? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Forgive me for my lengthy post, but I thought I would provide enough information for you to help me determine why my styles are not formatting properly. First, I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Now for the details. My coworkers and I have our Normal.dot set up with the exact same styles and style attributes. We also share a document template that has also been set up with the exact same styles and style attributes as those found in the Normal.dot file. I know, we don't need both, but the document templates are used primarily by the engineers, not the members of my team. Anyway, if I open a new document (File | New), type 3 sentences, then apply the Note style to the first sentence, the term Note is left justified. If I apply Note 2 to the second sentence, the term Note is indented 1/4 inch. If I apply Note 3 to the third sentence, the term Note is indented 1/2 inch. This is the formatting we have applied to each of the three Note styles we've built. Unfortunately, the formatting doesn't work the same in a document that was created using the document template I mentioned above. Note 1 is left justified, as it should be, but Note 2 and Note 3 are really misaligned. Note 2 indents 3/4 inch and Note 3 indents slightly more than 1/4 inch. In other words, Note 2 is indented more than Note 3. This is baffling because the document template has the exact same styles and style attributes as Normal.dot. Using Organizer, I copied the two Note styles from Normal.dot to the current document's styles and tried to re-apply the two styles to the text in the document. Not surprisingly, there were no changes in the positioning of the Note terms. Two questions - 1. Considering the styles in the document template were built with the exact same style attributes as those in Normal.dot, why didn't Note 2 and Note 3 align properly - the way they aligned in the blank document when Normal.dot was used to format the three sentences?? 2. Normal.dot formatted the text correctly in a new document (File | New), but when copied to the current document's styles and applied to the text, the text would NOT format correctly. It was misaligned. Can someone please tell me why?? Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. ----------------- getravel (Mike) |
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Well, I'm glad if this was helpful. Let us know if it really fixed the
problem! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Suzanne, you are a genious. I haven't fixed the problem in my document yet, but after reading the link you provided in your response, I know EXACTLY where the problem lies. Thank you so much!!! I'm off to share your guidance with the rest of my team. Thanks again!!! -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some avenues you could explo 1. What styles are the styles based on? Is Note based on Normal? Is Note 2 based on Note? Etc. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html 2. How did you apply the indents? In the Format | Paragraph dialog? Or was Bullets and Numbering implicated in any way? Is there a chance that some bullet/numbering influence could somehow be affecting these styles/paragraphs? 3. If you reattach the template (in which the styles are defined correctly) with "Automatically update document styles" checked, does this make any difference? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Forgive me for my lengthy post, but I thought I would provide enough information for you to help me determine why my styles are not formatting properly. First, I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Now for the details. My coworkers and I have our Normal.dot set up with the exact same styles and style attributes. We also share a document template that has also been set up with the exact same styles and style attributes as those found in the Normal.dot file. I know, we don't need both, but the document templates are used primarily by the engineers, not the members of my team. Anyway, if I open a new document (File | New), type 3 sentences, then apply the Note style to the first sentence, the term Note is left justified. If I apply Note 2 to the second sentence, the term Note is indented 1/4 inch. If I apply Note 3 to the third sentence, the term Note is indented 1/2 inch. This is the formatting we have applied to each of the three Note styles we've built. Unfortunately, the formatting doesn't work the same in a document that was created using the document template I mentioned above. Note 1 is left justified, as it should be, but Note 2 and Note 3 are really misaligned. Note 2 indents 3/4 inch and Note 3 indents slightly more than 1/4 inch. In other words, Note 2 is indented more than Note 3. This is baffling because the document template has the exact same styles and style attributes as Normal.dot. Using Organizer, I copied the two Note styles from Normal.dot to the current document's styles and tried to re-apply the two styles to the text in the document. Not surprisingly, there were no changes in the positioning of the Note terms. Two questions - 1. Considering the styles in the document template were built with the exact same style attributes as those in Normal.dot, why didn't Note 2 and Note 3 align properly - the way they aligned in the blank document when Normal.dot was used to format the three sentences?? 2. Normal.dot formatted the text correctly in a new document (File | New), but when copied to the current document's styles and applied to the text, the text would NOT format correctly. It was misaligned. Can someone please tell me why?? Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. ----------------- getravel (Mike) |
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Susanne,
the web site you referred to in your previous response explained that when a style is created, based on another style, it maintains all the attributes of that basis style. This explained why the style I had built was indenting incorrectly. I wound up building a new style without using another style as a basis - AND IT WORKS LIKE A CHAMP!!! Thanks again. getravel (Mike) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, I'm glad if this was helpful. Let us know if it really fixed the problem! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Suzanne, you are a genious. I haven't fixed the problem in my document yet, but after reading the link you provided in your response, I know EXACTLY where the problem lies. Thank you so much!!! I'm off to share your guidance with the rest of my team. Thanks again!!! -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some avenues you could explo 1. What styles are the styles based on? Is Note based on Normal? Is Note 2 based on Note? Etc. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html 2. How did you apply the indents? In the Format | Paragraph dialog? Or was Bullets and Numbering implicated in any way? Is there a chance that some bullet/numbering influence could somehow be affecting these styles/paragraphs? 3. If you reattach the template (in which the styles are defined correctly) with "Automatically update document styles" checked, does this make any difference? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Forgive me for my lengthy post, but I thought I would provide enough information for you to help me determine why my styles are not formatting properly. First, I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Now for the details. My coworkers and I have our Normal.dot set up with the exact same styles and style attributes. We also share a document template that has also been set up with the exact same styles and style attributes as those found in the Normal.dot file. I know, we don't need both, but the document templates are used primarily by the engineers, not the members of my team. Anyway, if I open a new document (File | New), type 3 sentences, then apply the Note style to the first sentence, the term Note is left justified. If I apply Note 2 to the second sentence, the term Note is indented 1/4 inch. If I apply Note 3 to the third sentence, the term Note is indented 1/2 inch. This is the formatting we have applied to each of the three Note styles we've built. Unfortunately, the formatting doesn't work the same in a document that was created using the document template I mentioned above. Note 1 is left justified, as it should be, but Note 2 and Note 3 are really misaligned. Note 2 indents 3/4 inch and Note 3 indents slightly more than 1/4 inch. In other words, Note 2 is indented more than Note 3. This is baffling because the document template has the exact same styles and style attributes as Normal.dot. Using Organizer, I copied the two Note styles from Normal.dot to the current document's styles and tried to re-apply the two styles to the text in the document. Not surprisingly, there were no changes in the positioning of the Note terms. Two questions - 1. Considering the styles in the document template were built with the exact same style attributes as those in Normal.dot, why didn't Note 2 and Note 3 align properly - the way they aligned in the blank document when Normal.dot was used to format the three sentences?? 2. Normal.dot formatted the text correctly in a new document (File | New), but when copied to the current document's styles and applied to the text, the text would NOT format correctly. It was misaligned. Can someone please tell me why?? Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. ----------------- getravel (Mike) |
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Great! Glad I (and Shauna) could help.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Susanne, the web site you referred to in your previous response explained that when a style is created, based on another style, it maintains all the attributes of that basis style. This explained why the style I had built was indenting incorrectly. I wound up building a new style without using another style as a basis - AND IT WORKS LIKE A CHAMP!!! Thanks again. getravel (Mike) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, I'm glad if this was helpful. Let us know if it really fixed the problem! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Suzanne, you are a genious. I haven't fixed the problem in my document yet, but after reading the link you provided in your response, I know EXACTLY where the problem lies. Thank you so much!!! I'm off to share your guidance with the rest of my team. Thanks again!!! -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Some avenues you could explo 1. What styles are the styles based on? Is Note based on Normal? Is Note 2 based on Note? Etc. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...esCascade.html 2. How did you apply the indents? In the Format | Paragraph dialog? Or was Bullets and Numbering implicated in any way? Is there a chance that some bullet/numbering influence could somehow be affecting these styles/paragraphs? 3. If you reattach the template (in which the styles are defined correctly) with "Automatically update document styles" checked, does this make any difference? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "getravel" wrote in message ... Forgive me for my lengthy post, but I thought I would provide enough information for you to help me determine why my styles are not formatting properly. First, I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Now for the details. My coworkers and I have our Normal.dot set up with the exact same styles and style attributes. We also share a document template that has also been set up with the exact same styles and style attributes as those found in the Normal.dot file. I know, we don't need both, but the document templates are used primarily by the engineers, not the members of my team. Anyway, if I open a new document (File | New), type 3 sentences, then apply the Note style to the first sentence, the term Note is left justified. If I apply Note 2 to the second sentence, the term Note is indented 1/4 inch. If I apply Note 3 to the third sentence, the term Note is indented 1/2 inch. This is the formatting we have applied to each of the three Note styles we've built. Unfortunately, the formatting doesn't work the same in a document that was created using the document template I mentioned above. Note 1 is left justified, as it should be, but Note 2 and Note 3 are really misaligned. Note 2 indents 3/4 inch and Note 3 indents slightly more than 1/4 inch. In other words, Note 2 is indented more than Note 3. This is baffling because the document template has the exact same styles and style attributes as Normal.dot. Using Organizer, I copied the two Note styles from Normal.dot to the current document's styles and tried to re-apply the two styles to the text in the document. Not surprisingly, there were no changes in the positioning of the Note terms. Two questions - 1. Considering the styles in the document template were built with the exact same style attributes as those in Normal.dot, why didn't Note 2 and Note 3 align properly - the way they aligned in the blank document when Normal.dot was used to format the three sentences?? 2. Normal.dot formatted the text correctly in a new document (File | New), but when copied to the current document's styles and applied to the text, the text would NOT format correctly. It was misaligned. Can someone please tell me why?? Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. ----------------- getravel (Mike) |
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