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styles morphed into "default paragraph font para char"
The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default
paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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You did it! It worked. Wow! Why?
I had figured it was a history of crashing/recovering without deleting temp files, and having a changed normal.dot. So, when I saw your advice (and it worked!), I had just deleted all temp files I could get my hands on, and I was about to replace normal.dot with a pristine version (I must have clicked "yes" sometime or other to a dialog box asking me if I want to change the template). However, I'm not having any luck overwriting that normal.dot with another one. Any advice on that? Thanks, Susan! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options? If so, what happens if you clear the check box? -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" Sandra wrote in message ... The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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Suzanne,
I was able to replace Normal.dot. I am very confused, though, about why I was able to work so long on this doc with "Keep track of formatting" on and it only recently became unruly. Aside of this, what is "default paragraph font para char"? More important, can I still use this file? Should I create a new file with some kind of new formatting for this document? thanks Sandra "Sandra Salstrom" wrote: You did it! It worked. Wow! Why? I had figured it was a history of crashing/recovering without deleting temp files, and having a changed normal.dot. So, when I saw your advice (and it worked!), I had just deleted all temp files I could get my hands on, and I was about to replace normal.dot with a pristine version (I must have clicked "yes" sometime or other to a dialog box asking me if I want to change the template). However, I'm not having any luck overwriting that normal.dot with another one. Any advice on that? Thanks, Susan! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options? If so, what happens if you clear the check box? -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" Sandra wrote in message ... The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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There is a difference between "styles" and "formatting." In Word 2002,
Microsoft introduced the Styles and Formatting task pane, which seems to reflect an admission of defeat, a concession that most Word users will never be persuaded to use styles. So whenever you add direct formatting to Normal (or any other style), Word creates a "formatting" listing of Normal+Bold, Normal+18 point, Italic, or whatever. The idea is that you can use these collections of formatting like styles, reapplying them as needed to other paragraphs. They also, if you do use styles, tend to serve as a reminder that you're not using them "correctly," that is, that you probably need to either update the style to match the new formatting or create a new style. If you don't want to see these "formatting" listings, however, then you clear the check box I mentioned. Enter the "char char" bug: Whenever you apply a paragraph style to just part of a paragraph (intentionally or, more often, unintentionally), Word applies it as a character style, so that you end up with, say, a Normal paragraph, part of which is formatted in Heading 1 Char. This bug was somewhat corrected by SP1 for Office XP IIRC. The Default Paragraph Font (as explained at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm) is just the underlying font applied to a paragraph as part of the style; it isn't a specific font, just the font defined by the style. Reapplying the DPF character style is, in effect, the same thing as stripping off any direct font formatting (by using Ctrl+Spacebar). Here's where it gets murky, as I can't quite see any scenario that would result in "default paragraph font para char," which looks like it's trying to be both a paragraph and a character style. I'm not sure what to suggest doing with your document. If all your paragraphs have been formatted strictly with styles and have no direct formatting applied, you could Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q, and Ctrl+Spacebar, but this would remove *all* direct formatting, both paragraph and character formatting, so it's pretty drastic and probably not necessary. You can also probably delete the "default paragraph font para char" style, but I'm not sure what repercussions that might have, either. You could treat the document as corrupt (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm), or you could carefully rebuild it from the template (create one if you haven't already). Starting with a fresh document based on the template, copy and paste portions of the original document in, keeping an eye on the Styles and Formatting task pane to see if new styles or formatting show up. If they do, Undo to remove the pasted text and hope for the best. If worst comes to worst, you can paste as Unformatted Text and reapply your styles. I would not advise this amount of work if you hadn't said that this document was going to have a long life and need to be edited a lot. In such a situation it's probably worth the effort to get it as clean as possible. -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I was able to replace Normal.dot. I am very confused, though, about why I was able to work so long on this doc with "Keep track of formatting" on and it only recently became unruly. Aside of this, what is "default paragraph font para char"? More important, can I still use this file? Should I create a new file with some kind of new formatting for this document? thanks Sandra "Sandra Salstrom" wrote: You did it! It worked. Wow! Why? I had figured it was a history of crashing/recovering without deleting temp files, and having a changed normal.dot. So, when I saw your advice (and it worked!), I had just deleted all temp files I could get my hands on, and I was about to replace normal.dot with a pristine version (I must have clicked "yes" sometime or other to a dialog box asking me if I want to change the template). However, I'm not having any luck overwriting that normal.dot with another one. Any advice on that? Thanks, Susan! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options? If so, what happens if you clear the check box? -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" Sandra wrote in message ... The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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Thanks for your thoughtful reply. For the time being, I've created a pdf and
will decide later what to do. One more question: in the last few days, I have run into two more people at my company who have the exact same style problem cropping up on them -- with the exact same name "default paragraph font para char". We've all discovered the problem in the last few days. One had opened my doc on their machine to take a look at it, the other hadn't. Perhaps a virus? Perhaps a common occurence that has only recently become "common"? This morning I downloaded anything suggested for Office / Word 2003. thanks, Suzanne, Sandra "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There is a difference between "styles" and "formatting." In Word 2002, Microsoft introduced the Styles and Formatting task pane, which seems to reflect an admission of defeat, a concession that most Word users will never be persuaded to use styles. So whenever you add direct formatting to Normal (or any other style), Word creates a "formatting" listing of Normal+Bold, Normal+18 point, Italic, or whatever. The idea is that you can use these collections of formatting like styles, reapplying them as needed to other paragraphs. They also, if you do use styles, tend to serve as a reminder that you're not using them "correctly," that is, that you probably need to either update the style to match the new formatting or create a new style. If you don't want to see these "formatting" listings, however, then you clear the check box I mentioned. Enter the "char char" bug: Whenever you apply a paragraph style to just part of a paragraph (intentionally or, more often, unintentionally), Word applies it as a character style, so that you end up with, say, a Normal paragraph, part of which is formatted in Heading 1 Char. This bug was somewhat corrected by SP1 for Office XP IIRC. The Default Paragraph Font (as explained at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm) is just the underlying font applied to a paragraph as part of the style; it isn't a specific font, just the font defined by the style. Reapplying the DPF character style is, in effect, the same thing as stripping off any direct font formatting (by using Ctrl+Spacebar). Here's where it gets murky, as I can't quite see any scenario that would result in "default paragraph font para char," which looks like it's trying to be both a paragraph and a character style. I'm not sure what to suggest doing with your document. If all your paragraphs have been formatted strictly with styles and have no direct formatting applied, you could Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q, and Ctrl+Spacebar, but this would remove *all* direct formatting, both paragraph and character formatting, so it's pretty drastic and probably not necessary. You can also probably delete the "default paragraph font para char" style, but I'm not sure what repercussions that might have, either. You could treat the document as corrupt (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm), or you could carefully rebuild it from the template (create one if you haven't already). Starting with a fresh document based on the template, copy and paste portions of the original document in, keeping an eye on the Styles and Formatting task pane to see if new styles or formatting show up. If they do, Undo to remove the pasted text and hope for the best. If worst comes to worst, you can paste as Unformatted Text and reapply your styles. I would not advise this amount of work if you hadn't said that this document was going to have a long life and need to be edited a lot. In such a situation it's probably worth the effort to get it as clean as possible. -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I was able to replace Normal.dot. I am very confused, though, about why I was able to work so long on this doc with "Keep track of formatting" on and it only recently became unruly. Aside of this, what is "default paragraph font para char"? More important, can I still use this file? Should I create a new file with some kind of new formatting for this document? thanks Sandra "Sandra Salstrom" wrote: You did it! It worked. Wow! Why? I had figured it was a history of crashing/recovering without deleting temp files, and having a changed normal.dot. So, when I saw your advice (and it worked!), I had just deleted all temp files I could get my hands on, and I was about to replace normal.dot with a pristine version (I must have clicked "yes" sometime or other to a dialog box asking me if I want to change the template). However, I'm not having any luck overwriting that normal.dot with another one. Any advice on that? Thanks, Susan! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options? If so, what happens if you clear the check box? -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" Sandra wrote in message ... The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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I wish I knew enough to help you, but unfortunately I've run out of ideas
here! -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" wrote in message ... Thanks for your thoughtful reply. For the time being, I've created a pdf and will decide later what to do. One more question: in the last few days, I have run into two more people at my company who have the exact same style problem cropping up on them -- with the exact same name "default paragraph font para char". We've all discovered the problem in the last few days. One had opened my doc on their machine to take a look at it, the other hadn't. Perhaps a virus? Perhaps a common occurence that has only recently become "common"? This morning I downloaded anything suggested for Office / Word 2003. thanks, Suzanne, Sandra "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There is a difference between "styles" and "formatting." In Word 2002, Microsoft introduced the Styles and Formatting task pane, which seems to reflect an admission of defeat, a concession that most Word users will never be persuaded to use styles. So whenever you add direct formatting to Normal (or any other style), Word creates a "formatting" listing of Normal+Bold, Normal+18 point, Italic, or whatever. The idea is that you can use these collections of formatting like styles, reapplying them as needed to other paragraphs. They also, if you do use styles, tend to serve as a reminder that you're not using them "correctly," that is, that you probably need to either update the style to match the new formatting or create a new style. If you don't want to see these "formatting" listings, however, then you clear the check box I mentioned. Enter the "char char" bug: Whenever you apply a paragraph style to just part of a paragraph (intentionally or, more often, unintentionally), Word applies it as a character style, so that you end up with, say, a Normal paragraph, part of which is formatted in Heading 1 Char. This bug was somewhat corrected by SP1 for Office XP IIRC. The Default Paragraph Font (as explained at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm) is just the underlying font applied to a paragraph as part of the style; it isn't a specific font, just the font defined by the style. Reapplying the DPF character style is, in effect, the same thing as stripping off any direct font formatting (by using Ctrl+Spacebar). Here's where it gets murky, as I can't quite see any scenario that would result in "default paragraph font para char," which looks like it's trying to be both a paragraph and a character style. I'm not sure what to suggest doing with your document. If all your paragraphs have been formatted strictly with styles and have no direct formatting applied, you could Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q, and Ctrl+Spacebar, but this would remove *all* direct formatting, both paragraph and character formatting, so it's pretty drastic and probably not necessary. You can also probably delete the "default paragraph font para char" style, but I'm not sure what repercussions that might have, either. You could treat the document as corrupt (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm), or you could carefully rebuild it from the template (create one if you haven't already). Starting with a fresh document based on the template, copy and paste portions of the original document in, keeping an eye on the Styles and Formatting task pane to see if new styles or formatting show up. If they do, Undo to remove the pasted text and hope for the best. If worst comes to worst, you can paste as Unformatted Text and reapply your styles. I would not advise this amount of work if you hadn't said that this document was going to have a long life and need to be edited a lot. In such a situation it's probably worth the effort to get it as clean as possible. -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I was able to replace Normal.dot. I am very confused, though, about why I was able to work so long on this doc with "Keep track of formatting" on and it only recently became unruly. Aside of this, what is "default paragraph font para char"? More important, can I still use this file? Should I create a new file with some kind of new formatting for this document? thanks Sandra "Sandra Salstrom" wrote: You did it! It worked. Wow! Why? I had figured it was a history of crashing/recovering without deleting temp files, and having a changed normal.dot. So, when I saw your advice (and it worked!), I had just deleted all temp files I could get my hands on, and I was about to replace normal.dot with a pristine version (I must have clicked "yes" sometime or other to a dialog box asking me if I want to change the template). However, I'm not having any luck overwriting that normal.dot with another one. Any advice on that? Thanks, Susan! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options? If so, what happens if you clear the check box? -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" Sandra wrote in message ... The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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styles morphed into "default paragraph font para char"
I have had the exact same problem. I created a "template" (really just a
reusable Word document with all the styles pre-defined for reuse on all our documents) two years ago and it has worked very well here and in our other offices, among many users nationwide. Beginning early this year, it started changing the "read out" names of these styles -- in other words, the styles are still there, but in the little box that show you what style you're using, it says "default paragraph" and several other variations of that, as well as "char char char" and others. Okay frustrating enough. Now, whenever even a single word of text is cut and pasted from an affected document, it automatically and irreveribly "corrupts" the styles for the previously "pristine" document. We reuse a lot of our documents, so this now has perpetuated into eight separate proposals, all of which will have to be repasted as unformatted text into a clean "template" and totally reformatted. That is the only "fix" I can think of unless someone else knows of a better way. BUT, that gets to the basic problem -- what caused this to happen suddenly out of reusing this document and all the other documents/proposals created from them? There was some discussion on the Knowledgebase that sounded something along these lines and discussed a fix pack (??) -- but it mentioned documention that dates back to sometime in 2003. Why would this just be hitting us now? I am using Windows XP and Word 2003. Most of us are, but there may be other versions of Windows and Word being used -- but it was never a problem before. We cut and paste like crazy and never any problems like this!! Any further insight would be very welcome!! Thanks!! Liz Z "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I wish I knew enough to help you, but unfortunately I've run out of ideas here! -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" wrote in message ... Thanks for your thoughtful reply. For the time being, I've created a pdf and will decide later what to do. One more question: in the last few days, I have run into two more people at my company who have the exact same style problem cropping up on them -- with the exact same name "default paragraph font para char". We've all discovered the problem in the last few days. One had opened my doc on their machine to take a look at it, the other hadn't. Perhaps a virus? Perhaps a common occurence that has only recently become "common"? This morning I downloaded anything suggested for Office / Word 2003. thanks, Suzanne, Sandra "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There is a difference between "styles" and "formatting." In Word 2002, Microsoft introduced the Styles and Formatting task pane, which seems to reflect an admission of defeat, a concession that most Word users will never be persuaded to use styles. So whenever you add direct formatting to Normal (or any other style), Word creates a "formatting" listing of Normal+Bold, Normal+18 point, Italic, or whatever. The idea is that you can use these collections of formatting like styles, reapplying them as needed to other paragraphs. They also, if you do use styles, tend to serve as a reminder that you're not using them "correctly," that is, that you probably need to either update the style to match the new formatting or create a new style. If you don't want to see these "formatting" listings, however, then you clear the check box I mentioned. Enter the "char char" bug: Whenever you apply a paragraph style to just part of a paragraph (intentionally or, more often, unintentionally), Word applies it as a character style, so that you end up with, say, a Normal paragraph, part of which is formatted in Heading 1 Char. This bug was somewhat corrected by SP1 for Office XP IIRC. The Default Paragraph Font (as explained at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm) is just the underlying font applied to a paragraph as part of the style; it isn't a specific font, just the font defined by the style. Reapplying the DPF character style is, in effect, the same thing as stripping off any direct font formatting (by using Ctrl+Spacebar). Here's where it gets murky, as I can't quite see any scenario that would result in "default paragraph font para char," which looks like it's trying to be both a paragraph and a character style. I'm not sure what to suggest doing with your document. If all your paragraphs have been formatted strictly with styles and have no direct formatting applied, you could Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q, and Ctrl+Spacebar, but this would remove *all* direct formatting, both paragraph and character formatting, so it's pretty drastic and probably not necessary. You can also probably delete the "default paragraph font para char" style, but I'm not sure what repercussions that might have, either. You could treat the document as corrupt (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm), or you could carefully rebuild it from the template (create one if you haven't already). Starting with a fresh document based on the template, copy and paste portions of the original document in, keeping an eye on the Styles and Formatting task pane to see if new styles or formatting show up. If they do, Undo to remove the pasted text and hope for the best. If worst comes to worst, you can paste as Unformatted Text and reapply your styles. I would not advise this amount of work if you hadn't said that this document was going to have a long life and need to be edited a lot. In such a situation it's probably worth the effort to get it as clean as possible. -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I was able to replace Normal.dot. I am very confused, though, about why I was able to work so long on this doc with "Keep track of formatting" on and it only recently became unruly. Aside of this, what is "default paragraph font para char"? More important, can I still use this file? Should I create a new file with some kind of new formatting for this document? thanks Sandra "Sandra Salstrom" wrote: You did it! It worked. Wow! Why? I had figured it was a history of crashing/recovering without deleting temp files, and having a changed normal.dot. So, when I saw your advice (and it worked!), I had just deleted all temp files I could get my hands on, and I was about to replace normal.dot with a pristine version (I must have clicked "yes" sometime or other to a dialog box asking me if I want to change the template). However, I'm not having any luck overwriting that normal.dot with another one. Any advice on that? Thanks, Susan! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have "Keep track of formatting" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options? If so, what happens if you clear the check box? -- 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. "Sandra Salstrom" Sandra wrote in message ... The Problem: all of the styles have morphed into a style called "default paragraph font para char" Have a major document (MS Word 2003, Professional version / OS is Win XP) that will need editing, etc for the rest of its long life. Created styles for it that worked like a charm. Finished/published it 2 weeks ago. Looked at it today and every style has morphed into a strange style called "default paragraph font para char" that I've never seen before. However, the doc still looks exactly the same as before. Several of my backups/revisions have the same problem. None of my other documents have this problem. I've never seen such a thing. Microsoft Knowledge Base has no clues for me (that I can find). What happened? What can I do? |
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styles morphed into "default paragraph font para char"
I also have the problem of my styles displaying as "default paragraph" when
work at home in Word 2003. (This doesn't happen in my older version of Word at my office.) My documents are formatted strictly using styles. The formatting is OK-just the style name displays as "default". My work-around is to delete the default paragraph style (in the Styles/Formatting list). Then the style names display properly. I have to do this every time I open my documents in Word 2003. It's a pain but at least the style names display properly! |
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