I edit reports created by others, and I have no control over how they
present the document to me. I am using Word 2000. Lately, I have made a
small change and watched the document go crazy! Going to the Undo menu, I
have noticed the item I will Undo is "Automatically Update Style".

Is this a setting that can be permanently and globally set on my machine to
prevent any style form automatically updating? Or is this going to be
peculiar to whatever style is in the document being worked on? Is it
possible to create a macro that will go through a document and turn off this
update "feature" for each style in the doc?

Thank you.
Ed

Ed,

Try,

Sub AutoOpen()
Dim oStyle As Style
For Each oStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles
oStyle.AutomaticallyUpdate = False
Next
End Sub

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm. The
"Add to template" button should take care of most of this.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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"Ed" wrote in message
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I edit reports created by others, and I have no control over how they
present the document to me. I am using Word 2000. Lately, I have made a
small change and watched the document go crazy! Going to the Undo menu, I
have noticed the item I will Undo is "Automatically Update Style".

Is this a setting that can be permanently and globally set on my machine
to
prevent any style form automatically updating? Or is this going to be
peculiar to whatever style is in the document being worked on? Is it
possible to create a macro that will go through a document and turn off
this
update "feature" for each style in the doc?

Thank you.
Ed

Greg: That worked when I specified If oStyle.Type = wdParagraph. Thank
you.
Ed

"Greg" wrote in message
ups.com...
Ed,

Try,

Sub AutoOpen()
Dim oStyle As Style
For Each oStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles
oStyle.AutomaticallyUpdate = False
Next
End Sub