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Help ! Applying a style to a selection changes the style itself
Hi all
I'm facing a weird problem. When a try to apply a style to a selected text, the style is changed with the text attributes, just like the 'update to match selection' feature !!! (it should be the other way around) This is a problem related to user settings since it does not appear with other users on the same machine. I tried to delete a few registry setting but to no avail. Does somebody know how to fix this ? Thanks Patrick Germain |
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The usual cause for these effects is that the style is set to "Automatically
Update" so I would check this first (from the Modify dialog on the style). I can't think of a user setting that would do this, but you might want to try turning Tools Options Edit "Prompt to update style" on to see if that makes any difference (it should then ask you whether you want to update to match selection), then turn it off and see if you get back to proper behaviour. Also make sure that you don't have AutoFormat As You Type settings confusing the issue. Probably worth running Help Detect and Repair - especially since you have poked around in the Registry g. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Patrick Germain" Patrick wrote in message ... Hi all I'm facing a weird problem. When a try to apply a style to a selected text, the style is changed with the text attributes, just like the 'update to match selection' feature !!! (it should be the other way around) This is a problem related to user settings since it does not appear with other users on the same machine. I tried to delete a few registry setting but to no avail. Does somebody know how to fix this ? Thanks Patrick Germain |
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Hi Margaret
Thanks for the reply - The 'prompt to update style' has no effect. I'm not prompted when the style is changed - All 'my Automatically update' are checked off - Using the Detect and Repair does not work either. But I did some tests and here are few things... * The problem occurs only with the Heading styles : if I want to change the style of my text to Heading 1 for example, the text style is not changed and a new style "Heading,1" is created with the attributes of the text I wanted to change. (Same thing with Heading 2 ,3 ...) * If I create a new style or use other styles it works fine Any idea ? "Margaret Aldis" wrote: The usual cause for these effects is that the style is set to "Automatically Update" so I would check this first (from the Modify dialog on the style). I can't think of a user setting that would do this, but you might want to try turning Tools Options Edit "Prompt to update style" on to see if that makes any difference (it should then ask you whether you want to update to match selection), then turn it off and see if you get back to proper behaviour. Also make sure that you don't have AutoFormat As You Type settings confusing the issue. Probably worth running Help Detect and Repair - especially since you have poked around in the Registry g. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Patrick Germain" Patrick wrote in message ... Hi all I'm facing a weird problem. When a try to apply a style to a selected text, the style is changed with the text attributes, just like the 'update to match selection' feature !!! (it should be the other way around) This is a problem related to user settings since it does not appear with other users on the same machine. I tried to delete a few registry setting but to no avail. Does somebody know how to fix this ? Thanks Patrick Germain |
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"Patrick Germain" wrote:
* The problem occurs only with the Heading styles : if I want to change the style of my text to Heading 1 for example, the text style is not changed and a new style "Heading,1" is created with the attributes of the text I wanted to change. (Same thing with Heading 2 ,3 ...) When you try to apply the style, is something selected? Note that when you apply a style you should either select the entire paragraph or have nothing selected (so that you see a blinking insertion point in the paragraph). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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