I'm using Word 2003.

I have created the styles for a document. I've been testing it out and
notice that when I click some of the style options, they don't always
work correctly. Sometimes the font changes completely...or the style
is not applied at all.

any ideas?

See http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm.

To apply a style to a paragraph, click in the paragraph without selecting
anything, and apply the style.

To apply the formatting of a style only to selected text, select the text
and apply the style. This will _not_ change the paragraph style for the
paragraph and may create a new character style based on a paragraph style.

If your styles have numbering or bullets, they must be created using
specific steps or they will act very strange. See: How to create numbered
headings or outline numbering in your Word document
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For
bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the
subject is related.)

Hope this helps, but without more detail from you on what you are doing to
apply the styles and what is happening, I can't even guess.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Shirley" wrote in message
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I'm using Word 2003.

I have created the styles for a document. I've been testing it out and
notice that when I click some of the style options, they don't always
work correctly. Sometimes the font changes completely...or the style
is not applied at all.

any ideas?