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strange formatting behaviour Word 2003 (not the automatic update issue)
A quick outline of the what I've done and what problem it has led to: (Using MS Word 2003 (11.8026.8028) SP2) I have a series of documents, not of them are particularly long - all around 10 pages. To each of these documents I have attached a common template - BookTemplate.dot The documents are set to "automatically update document styles" in the attach template dialog. The documents have been formatted using the styles from the template - one hierachy for the formatting of bookbodytext and the associated headings etc, and another hierarchy for code samples. After closing the documents and returning to them all seems well. The next day the formatting had been scrambled - some of the bookbodyheadings had become code samples, certain paragraphs and become figure holders, others captions - I can discern no noticable pattern. I went back to the version of the documents before I attached the template and went through a similar procedure - again the formatting has become scrambled. I thought I had managed to narrow down the cause to the deleting of "Comment" styles in the Organizer, after doing this, saving, closing and altering font in template and then re-opening, the formatting was scrambled. But - the same has happened to the documents yet again, even though the "Comment" styles have all been left in this time. I really have no idea what could be causing this, but it is becoming quite a headache as I've formatted all of the documents several times - and lost all the formatting every time. Any suggestions or pointer to more information would be appreciated. I can of course supply more details of the situation if required. Thanks, Tom G |
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strange formatting behaviour Word 2003 (not the automatic update i
Might be worth checking for updates (my Word is at 11.8026.8036).
Lucy -- MOS Master Instructor South Australia If this post answered your question please let us know as others may be interested too " wrote: A quick outline of the what I've done and what problem it has led to: (Using MS Word 2003 (11.8026.8028) SP2) I have a series of documents, not of them are particularly long - all around 10 pages. To each of these documents I have attached a common template - BookTemplate.dot The documents are set to "automatically update document styles" in the attach template dialog. The documents have been formatted using the styles from the template - one hierachy for the formatting of bookbodytext and the associated headings etc, and another hierarchy for code samples. After closing the documents and returning to them all seems well. The next day the formatting had been scrambled - some of the bookbodyheadings had become code samples, certain paragraphs and become figure holders, others captions - I can discern no noticable pattern. I went back to the version of the documents before I attached the template and went through a similar procedure - again the formatting has become scrambled. I thought I had managed to narrow down the cause to the deleting of "Comment" styles in the Organizer, after doing this, saving, closing and altering font in template and then re-opening, the formatting was scrambled. But - the same has happened to the documents yet again, even though the "Comment" styles have all been left in this time. I really have no idea what could be causing this, but it is becoming quite a headache as I've formatted all of the documents several times - and lost all the formatting every time. Any suggestions or pointer to more information would be appreciated. I can of course supply more details of the situation if required. Thanks, Tom G |
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strange formatting behaviour Word 2003 (not the automatic update i
Unfortunately I'm working in a big corporate with an automatic update
system, I'm not sure applying patches that haven't been passed on by the IT team is going to make them very happy. Double this with the fact I don't speak the langauge of the country I'm in so I can't ask the IT team to forward the latest patch on :S But thanks for the suggestion, Tom G aneasiertomorrow wrote: Might be worth checking for updates (my Word is at 11.8026.8036). Lucy -- MOS Master Instructor South Australia If this post answered your question please let us know as others may be interested too " wrote: A quick outline of the what I've done and what problem it has led to: (Using MS Word 2003 (11.8026.8028) SP2) I have a series of documents, not of them are particularly long - all around 10 pages. To each of these documents I have attached a common template - BookTemplate.dot The documents are set to "automatically update document styles" in the attach template dialog. The documents have been formatted using the styles from the template - one hierachy for the formatting of bookbodytext and the associated headings etc, and another hierarchy for code samples. After closing the documents and returning to them all seems well. The next day the formatting had been scrambled - some of the bookbodyheadings had become code samples, certain paragraphs and become figure holders, others captions - I can discern no noticable pattern. I went back to the version of the documents before I attached the template and went through a similar procedure - again the formatting has become scrambled. I thought I had managed to narrow down the cause to the deleting of "Comment" styles in the Organizer, after doing this, saving, closing and altering font in template and then re-opening, the formatting was scrambled. But - the same has happened to the documents yet again, even though the "Comment" styles have all been left in this time. I really have no idea what could be causing this, but it is becoming quite a headache as I've formatted all of the documents several times - and lost all the formatting every time. Any suggestions or pointer to more information would be appreciated. I can of course supply more details of the situation if required. Thanks, Tom G |
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strange formatting behaviour Word 2003 (not the automatic update issue)
A quick outline of the what I've done and what problem it has led to:
(Using MS Word 2003 (11.8026.8028) SP2) I have a series of documents, not of them are particularly long - all around 10 pages. To each of these documents I have attached a common template - BookTemplate.dot The documents are set to "automatically update document styles" in the attach template dialog. The documents have been formatted using the styles from the template - one hierachy for the formatting of bookbodytext and the associated headings etc, and another hierarchy for code samples. After closing the documents and returning to them all seems well. The next day the formatting had been scrambled - some of the bookbodyheadings had become code samples, certain paragraphs and become figure holders, others captions - I can discern no noticable pattern. I went back to the version of the documents before I attached the template and went through a similar procedure - again the formatting has become scrambled. I thought I had managed to narrow down the cause to the deleting of "Comment" styles in the Organizer, after doing this, saving, closing and altering font in template and then re-opening, the formatting was scrambled. But - the same has happened to the documents yet again, even though the "Comment" styles have all been left in this time. I really have no idea what could be causing this, but it is becoming quite a headache as I've formatted all of the documents several times - and lost all the formatting every time. Any suggestions or pointer to more information would be appreciated. I can of course supply more details of the situation if required. I suspect the document may be damaged. If you copy, say, a couple of pages to a new document and attach the template, close, re-open, etc. Is the problem still there, or is it gone? If it's gone, try 1. Unlinking "update styles" 2. Save as XML. Close. Re-open and save as a *.doc. (Saving in a round-trip format often "shakes loose" junk that can cause problems.) 3. Relink the template and test. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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