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Formatting different between two computers...
I have two users in my office. They have identical computers physically.
There are some differences between the normal.dot files though. When one opens a document that the other created it looks drastically different. I have read the "its the printer" concept, but it doesn't do it for everything. They are using styles to do most of the formating. One example of what happend was a block quote section on one document did not appear indented when opened on the others computer. Thanks much, Derrick Krakau Systems Admin FF&SJ |
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Formatting different between two computers...
I want to add that the version of office in this case is Office XP Service
Pack 3 "Derrick Krakau" wrote in message ... I have two users in my office. They have identical computers physically. There are some differences between the normal.dot files though. When one opens a document that the other created it looks drastically different. I have read the "its the printer" concept, but it doesn't do it for everything. They are using styles to do most of the formating. One example of what happend was a block quote section on one document did not appear indented when opened on the others computer. Thanks much, Derrick Krakau Systems Admin FF&SJ |
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Formatting different between two computers...
The appearance of the document should not be affected by Normal.dot or any
other attached template unless the template/document is set to "Automatically update document styles." See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html and http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html -- 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. "Derrick Krakau" wrote in message ... I have two users in my office. They have identical computers physically. There are some differences between the normal.dot files though. When one opens a document that the other created it looks drastically different. I have read the "its the printer" concept, but it doesn't do it for everything. They are using styles to do most of the formating. One example of what happend was a block quote section on one document did not appear indented when opened on the others computer. Thanks much, Derrick Krakau Systems Admin FF&SJ |
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Formatting different between two computers...
Please read this:
http://shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/...matChange.html I suspect the Automatically Update Document Styles check box is checked. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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Formatting different between two computers...
I have checked both computers and the Update Document Styles check box is
NOT checked on either computer. I still think it has something to do with styles but I am not seeing the possible causes. Any other suggestions? Thanks so far, Derrick "Bear" (nospam) wrote in message ... Please read this: http://shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/...matChange.html I suspect the Automatically Update Document Styles check box is checked. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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Formatting different between two computers...
Derrick:
The only other wrinkle I can think of has to do ONLY with the bulleted or numbered lists, where the appearance of lists on machine B may depend on how user B has edited his gallery settings (the individual panes in the Format Bullets and Numbering dialog box) during the current session. There are few other possibilities when it comes to style problems. The definition of a style really is preserved in a document if that Automatically Update Document Styles check box is cleared. To utterly eliminate the possibility of the Normal.dot file causing conflicts, why not experiment by saving user B's Normal.dot (say as Normal.bak) and copying user A's Normal.dot onto user B's machine. Open the document and see if the same differences appear or not. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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