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Unwanted tabs
I have the Automatically Update Styles checkbox selected for my template,
because I need to be able to update all styles without opening each document. HOWEVER, everytime I open a document with the template attached, it throws in unwanted tabs in the Heading and Bullet styles. Help !! |
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So open the template directly and all by itself and modify those styles to
NOT have all those tabs. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Debbie" wrote in message ... I have the Automatically Update Styles checkbox selected for my template, because I need to be able to update all styles without opening each document. HOWEVER, everytime I open a document with the template attached, it throws in unwanted tabs in the Heading and Bullet styles. Help !! |
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If only it were that easy. That was the FIRST thing I did !!
"Anne Troy" wrote: So open the template directly and all by itself and modify those styles to NOT have all those tabs. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Debbie" wrote in message ... I have the Automatically Update Styles checkbox selected for my template, because I need to be able to update all styles without opening each document. HOWEVER, everytime I open a document with the template attached, it throws in unwanted tabs in the Heading and Bullet styles. Help !! |
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Debbie was telling us:
Debbie nous racontait que : I have the Automatically Update Styles checkbox selected for my Do you mean the check box in the Templates and Add-ins... dialog (which is a document setting, not a template one) or the checkbox in the style definition dialog? template, because I need to be able to update all styles without opening each document. HOWEVER, everytime I open a document with the Keep in mind that if the template style definitions are changed, the documents created from that template will eventually have to be opened and saved for those changes to be reflected in them... template attached, it throws in unwanted tabs in the Heading and Bullet styles. Help !! What Word version? -- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP ISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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I'm using 2003. The selected checkbox is in the Templates and Add-ins dialog
box. When I open the document and the styles are automatically updated, there is an extra tab inserted in the Heading and Bullet styles. This tab does not exist in the document nor the template. Word will not insert this tab if I DESELECT the auto-update checkbox in the Templates and Add-ins dialog box. Just wondered if this was a bug. Do you mean the check box in the Templates and Add-ins... dialog (which is a document setting, not a template one) or the checkbox in the style definition dialog? Keep in mind that if the template style definitions are changed, the documents created from that template will eventually have to be opened and saved for those changes to be reflected in them... What Word version? "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote: Debbie was telling us: Debbie nous racontait que : I have the Automatically Update Styles checkbox selected for my template, because I need to be able to update all styles without opening each document. HOWEVER, everytime I open a document with the template attached, it throws in unwanted tabs in the Heading and Bullet styles. Help !! -- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP ISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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Debbie was telling us:
Debbie nous racontait que : I'm using 2003. The selected checkbox is in the Templates and Add-ins dialog box. When I open the document and the styles are automatically updated, there is an extra tab inserted in the Heading and Bullet styles. This tab does not exist in the document nor the template. Word will not insert this tab if I DESELECT the auto-update checkbox in the Templates and Add-ins dialog box. Just wondered if this was a bug. Well, it is a bug of some sort, but it is user related as well... First, make sure you use the good technique for creating bulleted/numbered styles, see: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html and http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html I have seen this behaviour in documents that had any of the following: Too many "ill-defined" numbered/bulleted styles Too many modifications applied "carelessly" to numbered/bulleted styles Too many unnecessary numbered/bulleted styles clashing with each other (or created based on each other) Templates opened/modified/saved under different Word versions (especially when one of the above applies) I have just tested a brand spanking new template with three custom styles (bullet, numbering, outline numbering) defined properly and with the Update option activated checked. No problems observed (Word 2003 SP1). So, first, create a quick template as I have (it takes less than 5 minutes) and see if you have the same problematic behaviour. If you do, then there is something going on with your version of Word (Do you have SP1 installed?). If you do not see the behaviour, then the problem resides in your template. At this point I would suggest that you recreate it. copy/paste all text, but none of the section breaks or the last ¶ in the document. You will have to recreate the section "Page setup," but you can copy/paste the header/footer contents. Doing so will also carry the styles to the new templates, but not a the "garbage" Word keeps track of in its internal binary stuff, especially if you have outline numbering. You may have to recreate some styles if you do not have text in the template that is currently formatted with those styles (or create temporary paragraphs in your original template before doing the copy/paste). But before going all this trouble, just create a blank template and copy/paste a sample paragraph form your original template that is formatted with the bulleted style and test the Update option when you create document from this test template. If the problem goes away, you know the solution I offer above will work. If not, try creating another test template, but this time manually create the bullet style and test it again. -- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP ISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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