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Various Styles get Bulleted Spontaneously on re-opening document
When I close my document and re-open it, various styles (which are not
related or based on each other) have bullets. Pressing backspace key to remove bullet points from a line of text acts as if I am changing the style, eg the following is shown in Styles sidebar: "Table Text + Left -0.1cm". I right-click on the original style in the sidebar, and select "Modify Style"; the style definition does not mention or show bullets, however when I select the styled text in the document, it claims to be in that style (thus re-applying the style to selected text has no effect). I have found this happens on re-opening the document after inserting a Table of Contents, section breaks (next page), and changing the header. I'm not sure which of these causes the bulleting. This has happened to two documents, based on different templates. Both documents were long (50 pages +). Templates were well set up and frequently used, no styles were set to automatically update. In the most recent document, nothing was copied/pasted from other documents, it was all written into the document using the defined styles. This problem happened once on my computer, once on another machine (both Word 2003). |
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Hi ?B?U2ltb25l?=,
When I close my document and re-open it, various styles (which are not related or based on each other) have bullets. 1. Tools/Templates and Addins: are styles set to automatically update from the template? 2. Are these built-in styles, or ones you've created? I right-click on the original style in the sidebar, and select "Modify Style"; the style definition does not mention or show bullets, however when I select the styled text in the document, it claims to be in that style (thus re-applying the style to selected text has no effect). This is an indication that the bullets have been applied as "direct formatting". If you select such a paragraph and press Ctrl+Q, does the bullet go away? If you open the Reveal Formatting task pane, can you glean any more information about where the bullets are coming from? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) 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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Thanks for your help - the Ctrl+Q trick seems to work. I'd still love to
know what caused it to happen though! \\ |
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