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I have the same problem:
When I save my Word 2010 document the style looks fine. BUT when I close and reopen the file, the font colour of the style has changed from black to grey. If I try to edit the style it tells me that the font is black (although it is displaying as grey). I have to change the colour of one sentence that uses this style and then update the style to match that sentence. I have to do this every time I open the document. I followed Lisa's recommendation given he but that option is not checked on my PC (Developer Tools | Templates | Document Template | Automatically Update Document Styles) |
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If you select the problem text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar, to reset font
formatting to that of the underlying paragraph style, then what happens? Does the grey color print? Does it display in Print Preview? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP I have the same problem: When I save my Word 2010 document the style looks fine. BUT when I close and reopen the file, the font colour of the style has changed from black to grey. If I try to edit the style it tells me that the font is black (although it is displaying as grey). I have to change the colour of one sentence that uses this style and then update the style to match that sentence. I have to do this every time I open the document. I followed Lisa's recommendation given he but that option is not checked on my PC (Developer Tools | Templates | Document Template | Automatically Update Document Styles) |
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Thanks Stefan for response. To answer your questions:
Ctrl+SpaceBar doesn't seem to do anything The text appears grey on the screen; in print preview and prints grey Once corrected to black; then it is black on the screen, in print preview and prints black. But I have just found a solution! ... I went to "Modify style" where "Style based on" showed that the style was based on a style with font colour grey. So I changed "Style based on" to "(no style)". I then had to edit the style to be what I wanted it to be. Now when I close and reopen the document it is fine. It's still strange that the problem existed but at I have a solution. |
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I'm glad you got it sorted.
Note that when a style A is based on another style B, a particular setting from B is duplicated in A until you explicitly change it in A (or until you set the base style to "(no style)" of course). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Thanks Stefan for response. To answer your questions: Ctrl+SpaceBar doesn't seem to do anything The text appears grey on the screen; in print preview and prints grey Once corrected to black; then it is black on the screen, in print preview and prints black. But I have just found a solution! ... I went to "Modify style" where "Style based on" showed that the style was based on a style with font colour grey. So I changed "Style based on" to "(no style)". I then had to edit the style to be what I wanted it to be. Now when I close and reopen the document it is fine. It's still strange that the problem existed but at I have a solution. |
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Thanks Stefan. You may be interested to know I did explicitly change the font colour setting for style A, but then the error would occur on reopening the document (so there is a "bug" somewhere)
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How annoying! :-(
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Thanks Stefan. You may be interested to know I did explicitly change the font colour setting for style A, but then the error would occur on reopening the document (so there is a "bug" somewhere) |
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By the way, have you looked at the "Automatically update document styles"
option mentioned by Lisa in her reply? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Thanks Stefan. You may be interested to know I did explicitly change the font colour setting for style A, but then the error would occur on reopening the document (so there is a "bug" somewhere) |
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Hi Stefan, Yes I followed Lisa's recommendation (see my original post on Jan 3)
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Hi,
You may be interested to know I did explicitly change the font colour setting for style A, but then the error would occur on reopening the document (so there is a "bug" somewhere) you did not change the Design, you did not change the Styles Set? Did you modify a character style, a paragraph style, or a linked style? You just modified this one style, you did not modify the basis style? Click into the formatted text and press SHIFT + F1. In the "Reveal Formatting" pane enable "Distinguish style source". Then, which information does the pane show for your text? When opening the document by "Open and Repair": Does any error message occur? Your also can send me the document for analysing. -- Cheers, Lisa |
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I have found a partial remedy to the lost styles problem, which is: I have defined my styles as a "quick style set". Each time I re-open the document, the styles are reverted to some default, but by applying my quick style set I can regain my styles. Still, it is annoying that I have to do it each and every time I open the document. Isn't there any possibility to cause the style definitions to stay? (Preferably one that does not involve templates...)
Den onsdag den 12. februar 2014 14.51.28 UTC+2 skrev Lisa Wilke-Thissen: Hi, You may be interested to know I did explicitly change the font colour setting for style A, but then the error would occur on reopening the document (so there is a "bug" somewhere) you did not change the Design, you did not change the Styles Set? Did you modify a character style, a paragraph style, or a linked style? You just modified this one style, you did not modify the basis style? Click into the formatted text and press SHIFT + F1. In the "Reveal Formatting" pane enable "Distinguish style source". Then, which information does the pane show for your text? When opening the document by "Open and Repair": Does any error message occur? Your also can send me the document for analysing. -- Cheers, Lisa |
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I get the same problem with paragraph styles. I am writing a dissertation that has APA Level 0 - 5, which define centering, font size, and placement in the Table of Contents. Since I don't really have time to comprehend Microsoft's continual changes to its software, I have a blank document, and then I paste in paragraph-by-paragraph into a copy of the blank document, save it, and re-generate the TOC. It takes hours, and seems ridiculous compared to the five seconds it requires to regenerate a LaTeX document, but I really have no choice.
On Thursday, January 3, 2013 10:07:53 AM UTC-6, wrote: I have the same problem: When I save my Word 2010 document the style looks fine. BUT when I close and reopen the file, the font colour of the style has changed from black to grey. If I try to edit the style it tells me that the font is black (although it is displaying as grey). I have to change the colour of one sentence that uses this style and then update the style to match that sentence. I have to do this every time I open the document. I followed Lisa's recommendation given he but that option is not checked on my PC (Developer Tools | Templates | Document Template | Automatically Update Document Styles) |
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Hi,
and then I paste in paragraph-by-paragraph into a copy of the blank document, save it, and re-generate the TOC. It takes hours, and seems ridiculous compared to the five seconds it requires to regenerate a LaTeX document, but I really have no choice. Using styles consistently throughout a document, usually ensures a stable/robust document. It is not necessary to copy content into a new document, especially not to copy "paragraph by paragraph". If a document is really damaged, you have to paste content as €śunformatted text€ť into a new document. I guess, the problems with your document are not caused by styles, but by other issues. -- Cheers, Lisa |
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