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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Templates behaving badly

If "formatting" is being displayed, you may see a style as many times as
you've added even the most trivial font formatting to a single character in
a paragraph.

I recently was working on a document that had a lot of direct formatting. In
an attempt to sort it out, I turned on the display of formatting (usually
disabled) and was appalled by the long list of Body Text + Italic, Body Text
+ Bold, etc., for every time a single word in a paragraph had been
italicized or bolded or whatever. The Styles and Formatting task pane became
totally unusable, and it was impossible to get any idea of what I was
dealing with. I ended up displaying the Style Area instead.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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If you open the template as a document, via the Open dialog box, then can
you save changes to styles? If so, my guess is that a poorly designed
add-in is preventing you from saving the template correctly. (Did you
install something recently?)

If the "style list" means the Styles and Formatting pane, note that it
shows recently used styles at the top, which explains why you are seeing a
style twice. It doesn't explain why a style would appear three times,
though. It might be a case of template corruption, I suppose; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm for assistance.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com" u3143@uwe wrote in message
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I'm having problems with documents and templates. I make changes to a
style,
click "Add to template", everything looks right and I save everything,
but
when I reopen the document, I've lost those changes. I'm not a newbie and
have done a lot with templates but I can't find what is causing this. In
one
case, the faulty style (which happens to be List Bullet 2) appears two or
even three times in the style list. I can delete the extra ones but they
reappear when I reopen, and the correct formatting has been lost. The
style
definition shows "no style" for "based on". What else could be affecting
this?
Another thing that goes wrong is the "Header" style, which loses
left-justify
and goes to centered. Can a whole template inherit from another whole
template? Or maybe is there a poltergeist originating in Redmond?

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Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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