Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style + changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied, they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the document, and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any ideas?

TIA,
Tim

Could it be that users are in Normal view using "Draft font"?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The
concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using
character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style +
changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied, they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the document,
and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am
thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any
ideas?

TIA,
Tim

Print Layout view. Fonts appear as they should, until the supposed
"underlying style" tag is applied.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Could it be that users are in Normal view using "Draft font"?

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The
concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using
character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style +
changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied, they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the document,
and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am
thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any
ideas?

TIA,
Tim

Applying Default Paragraph Font removes all direct font formatting.

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Print Layout view. Fonts appear as they should, until the supposed
"underlying style" tag is applied.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Could it be that users are in Normal view using "Draft font"?

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The
concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently
come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using
character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style +
changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see
what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied,
they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the
document,
and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to
only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am
thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any
ideas?

TIA,
Tim

I wanted to maintain the formatting. On other documents these tags leave the
underlying format intact - on this one, it changes it to the default font.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Applying Default Paragraph Font removes all direct font formatting.

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Print Layout view. Fonts appear as they should, until the supposed
"underlying style" tag is applied.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Could it be that users are in Normal view using "Draft font"?

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents. The
concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently
come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using
character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style +
changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see
what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied,
they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the
document,
and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to
only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am
thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any
ideas?

TIA,
Tim

What is the name of the character style that you are applying?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
news
I wanted to maintain the formatting. On other documents these tags leave
the
underlying format intact - on this one, it changes it to the default font.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Applying Default Paragraph Font removes all direct font formatting.

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Print Layout view. Fonts appear as they should, until the supposed
"underlying style" tag is applied.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Could it be that users are in Normal view using "Draft font"?

--
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.

"WordCrisis" wrote in message
...
Dear Helpful Persons,

I have been using a style certain style sheet on many documents.
The
concept
has been that when the text is marked up, programs can
subsequently
come
along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been
using
character
styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style
+
changing
the font colour so that the people working on the documents can
see
what
parts they have marked up.

I am now finding documents such that when these styles are
applied,
they
seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the
document,
and
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to
only
happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am
thinking
it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be.
Any
ideas?

TIA,
Tim

"WordCrisis" wrote:
Dear Helpful Persons,
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has been that when the text is marked up, programs can subsequently =
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along and find the marked-up text and capture it. I have been using =
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styles that are set to the font of the underlying paragraph style + =
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the font colour so that the people working on the documents can see =
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parts they have marked up.
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I am now finding documents such that when these styles are applied, =
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seem to change the font to the default paragraph font for the =
document, and=20
all formatting information (bold, ital etc) is lost. It appears to =
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happen in certain documents as opposed to certaim machines so I am =
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it must be a document setting, but I can't think what it might be. Any =
ideas?


Hi Tim,

I think that's standard behaviour with all character styles:
Applying any character style will remove any manual font formatting (all =
Word versions, on all machines).

And there isn't much you can do about it, at least not without quite a =
bit of work. You could write your own macro that remembers the manual =
font formatting (either all of it or special kinds such as italic and =
bold), applies the character style, and reapplies the manual font =
formatting.

Regards,
Klaus