Word will often, arbitrarily change my style settings. If apply a style
already in use elsewhere in the document to another paragraph, Word will
change the tabs and paragraph indents for the style. I then have to fix the
style to get it to display properly again. It seems to only do this with
styles that use bullets.

This has been a problem for the last several versions of Word. Is there a
way to keep it from doing this?

You need to set the tabs and indents via the Numbering format for the style,
not via the Paragraph dialog.

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Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"Mashuganah" wrote in message
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Word will often, arbitrarily change my style settings. If apply a style
already in use elsewhere in the document to another paragraph, Word will
change the tabs and paragraph indents for the style. I then have to fix
the
style to get it to display properly again. It seems to only do this with
styles that use bullets.

This has been a problem for the last several versions of Word. Is there a
way to keep it from doing this?

Tools Options Edit Prompt to Update Style (should be checked, always)

Tools AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type
Uncheck "Define Styles Based on Your Formatting."

Check your style definitions. You do _not_ want automatically update
checked.

If that doesn't do it for you, take a look at
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm.


--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Mashuganah" wrote in message
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Word will often, arbitrarily change my style settings. If apply a style
already in use elsewhere in the document to another paragraph, Word will
change the tabs and paragraph indents for the style. I then have to fix
the
style to get it to display properly again. It seems to only do this with
styles that use bullets.

This has been a problem for the last several versions of Word. Is there a
way to keep it from doing this?

Missed the part about the bullets. Sorry.

Set up your styles using the steps in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Mashuganah" wrote in message
...
Word will often, arbitrarily change my style settings. If apply a style
already in use elsewhere in the document to another paragraph, Word will
change the tabs and paragraph indents for the style. I then have to fix
the
style to get it to display properly again. It seems to only do this with
styles that use bullets.

This has been a problem for the last several versions of Word. Is there a
way to keep it from doing this?