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stop automatic style changes
Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated
at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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Fix the definition of Normal: clear the Automatically Update checkbox.
"Ray_FW" wrote in message ... Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm
-- 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. "Ray_FW" wrote in message ... Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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Thanks Jezebel and Suzanne, I am not back to the network until mid next week
but I will follow your advice then. Grateful Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- 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. "Ray_FW" wrote in message ... Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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stop automatic style changes
The problem dealt with below is (I think) more esoteric than mine but they
are related, so maybe someone can help. I am using Word 2003 with Xp and I find that every time I introduce some new feature (say, the bolding or italicising of a particular word for emphasis on a one-off basis, i.e. pure character formatting) to a paragraph that is in a defined style a new style springs up bearing the name of the previously existing style together with a reference to the new feature. I tracked down the Help article 'Turn on or off automatic style definition' and, as instructed, drilled down through Tools/Autocorrect Options/Autoformat As You Type and found that, as should be the case, Define styles bases on your formatting was NOT checked. (It would have been gratifying to find that it was checked.). I then checked it, clicked OK, went in again, unchecked it and clicked OK, but the problem is still there. It may not be relevant, but I notice that, if there is only one instance of the 'rogue' style, reversing the action that created it (e.g. unbolding the bolded bit) will kill off the new style. But, of course, that's no solution. "Ray_FW" wrote: Thanks Jezebel and Suzanne, I am not back to the network until mid next week but I will follow your advice then. Grateful Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- 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. "Ray_FW" wrote in message ... Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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stop automatic style changes
Hi Style-tamer
There are several unrelated things going on here at once. 1. Tools Autocorrect Options Autoformat as you type Define styles based on your formatting does not, oddly enough, define styles based on your formattingg. If that box is ticked, and you format a paragraph with only a few words in large, bold type, Word will make an assumption that such a thing is a heading and will try to guess what kind of heading it might be, and apply a style based on its guesses and assumptions. It's never a good idea to let Word guess or assume anything much, so I would strongly advise you to turn that off. 2. Tools Options Edit Keep track of formatting is the check box that determines whether Word keeps a list in its head of all the different combinations of formatting you have used. But things like "Body Text + Orange" or "Normal + Bold" are not styles. They are descriptions of style + direct formatting you have used, just as you explained. If you don't want to see them in the Styles and Formatting pane, un-tick the Keep track of formatting box. For more information, see the following, especially Figure 4: How the Styles and Formatting pane works in Word 2002 and 2003 http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpa...ttingPane.html Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Style-tamer" wrote in message ... The problem dealt with below is (I think) more esoteric than mine but they are related, so maybe someone can help. I am using Word 2003 with Xp and I find that every time I introduce some new feature (say, the bolding or italicising of a particular word for emphasis on a one-off basis, i.e. pure character formatting) to a paragraph that is in a defined style a new style springs up bearing the name of the previously existing style together with a reference to the new feature. I tracked down the Help article 'Turn on or off automatic style definition' and, as instructed, drilled down through Tools/Autocorrect Options/Autoformat As You Type and found that, as should be the case, Define styles bases on your formatting was NOT checked. (It would have been gratifying to find that it was checked.). I then checked it, clicked OK, went in again, unchecked it and clicked OK, but the problem is still there. It may not be relevant, but I notice that, if there is only one instance of the 'rogue' style, reversing the action that created it (e.g. unbolding the bolded bit) will kill off the new style. But, of course, that's no solution. "Ray_FW" wrote: Thanks Jezebel and Suzanne, I am not back to the network until mid next week but I will follow your advice then. Grateful Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- 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. "Ray_FW" wrote in message ... Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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stop automatic style changes
Thank you, Shauna, that's done the trick. And the article in your link is
very helpful in understanding the whole topic. "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Style-tamer There are several unrelated things going on here at once. 1. Tools Autocorrect Options Autoformat as you type Define styles based on your formatting does not, oddly enough, define styles based on your formattingg. If that box is ticked, and you format a paragraph with only a few words in large, bold type, Word will make an assumption that such a thing is a heading and will try to guess what kind of heading it might be, and apply a style based on its guesses and assumptions. It's never a good idea to let Word guess or assume anything much, so I would strongly advise you to turn that off. 2. Tools Options Edit Keep track of formatting is the check box that determines whether Word keeps a list in its head of all the different combinations of formatting you have used. But things like "Body Text + Orange" or "Normal + Bold" are not styles. They are descriptions of style + direct formatting you have used, just as you explained. If you don't want to see them in the Styles and Formatting pane, un-tick the Keep track of formatting box. For more information, see the following, especially Figure 4: How the Styles and Formatting pane works in Word 2002 and 2003 http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpa...ttingPane.html Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Style-tamer" wrote in message ... The problem dealt with below is (I think) more esoteric than mine but they are related, so maybe someone can help. I am using Word 2003 with Xp and I find that every time I introduce some new feature (say, the bolding or italicising of a particular word for emphasis on a one-off basis, i.e. pure character formatting) to a paragraph that is in a defined style a new style springs up bearing the name of the previously existing style together with a reference to the new feature. I tracked down the Help article 'Turn on or off automatic style definition' and, as instructed, drilled down through Tools/Autocorrect Options/Autoformat As You Type and found that, as should be the case, Define styles bases on your formatting was NOT checked. (It would have been gratifying to find that it was checked.). I then checked it, clicked OK, went in again, unchecked it and clicked OK, but the problem is still there. It may not be relevant, but I notice that, if there is only one instance of the 'rogue' style, reversing the action that created it (e.g. unbolding the bolded bit) will kill off the new style. But, of course, that's no solution. "Ray_FW" wrote: Thanks Jezebel and Suzanne, I am not back to the network until mid next week but I will follow your advice then. Grateful Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm -- 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. "Ray_FW" wrote in message ... Whilst working with microsoft word on a network, I am continually frustrated at changes being made to the normal style. I work with many new users who have not been introduced to styles. Repeatedly when they apply a change to text formatting (using Word XP) it applies those changes to all of their document as it automatically applies a change to the normal style. The operator must then click undo automatically update style, which returns the normal style to the remainder of the document applying the changes only to the selected text. When this occurs in a very long document, this change can take a very long time. To try to prevent this using the Tools AutoCorrect Options ... and selecting Autoformat as you type and making sure that the "define styles based upon your formatting" is unchecked; these changes still occur. How can I stop these changes happening. |
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