I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me crazy. For
example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another appears,
Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you type" option for
AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I stop this from happening?
My style sheet is getting huge.

"Char" styles are created when a user selects part of a paragraph (but
not the whole paragraph) and applies a paragraph style (such as "Normal"
or "Heading 1") to it. To stop this from happening, educate the user.

Scribe wrote:

I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me crazy. For
example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another appears,
Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you type" option for
AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I stop this from happening?
My style sheet is getting huge.

Tools options edit uncheck 'keep track of formatting'

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Scribe wrote:
I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me crazy.
For example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another
appears, Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you
type" option for AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I
stop this from happening? My style sheet is getting huge.

Can you please elaborate on "educate the user" - How do we get rid of it?

This link here that was given as a fix - could someone translate in more
dummies version. Just need more details.:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl Thanks very
much:

--
- RP -


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

"Char" styles are created when a user selects part of a paragraph (but
not the whole paragraph) and applies a paragraph style (such as "Normal"
or "Heading 1") to it. To stop this from happening, educate the user.

Scribe wrote:

I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me crazy. For
example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another appears,
Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you type" option for
AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I stop this from happening?
My style sheet is getting huge.

Train users not to select part of a paragraph when applying styles.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"RP2chil" wrote in message
...
Can you please elaborate on "educate the user" - How do we get rid of it?

This link here that was given as a fix - could someone translate in more
dummies version. Just need more details.:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl Thanks
very
much:

--
- RP -


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

"Char" styles are created when a user selects part of a paragraph (but
not the whole paragraph) and applies a paragraph style (such as "Normal"
or "Heading 1") to it. To stop this from happening, educate the user.

Scribe wrote:

I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me crazy.
For
example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another
appears,
Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you type"
option for
AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I stop this from
happening?
My style sheet is getting huge.

Suzanne, so what is the fix for this, is there any? To get rid of Char's and
keep everything in tact? Or is this an MS Word Bug that cannot be fixed
until future fixes or upgrades.
--
- RP -


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Train users not to select part of a paragraph when applying styles.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"RP2chil" wrote in message
...
Can you please elaborate on "educate the user" - How do we get rid of it?

This link here that was given as a fix - could someone translate in more
dummies version. Just need more details.:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl Thanks
very
much:

--
- RP -


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

"Char" styles are created when a user selects part of a paragraph (but
not the whole paragraph) and applies a paragraph style (such as "Normal"
or "Heading 1") to it. To stop this from happening, educate the user.

Scribe wrote:

I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me crazy.
For
example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another
appears,
Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you type"
option for
AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I stop this from
happening?
My style sheet is getting huge.

I believe that one of the service packs for Word 2002 was supposed to
alleviate this. Once you get the Char styles, they're extremely difficult to
eradicate: you can delete them, but then the related paragraph style is also
deleted, and every paragraph in that style returns to Normal. Cindy Meister
has a macro for deleting Char styles at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"RP2chil" wrote in message
...
Suzanne, so what is the fix for this, is there any? To get rid of Char's
and
keep everything in tact? Or is this an MS Word Bug that cannot be fixed
until future fixes or upgrades.
--
- RP -


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Train users not to select part of a paragraph when applying styles.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"RP2chil" wrote in message
...
Can you please elaborate on "educate the user" - How do we get rid of
it?

This link here that was given as a fix - could someone translate in
more
dummies version. Just need more details.:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl
Thanks
very
much:

--
- RP -


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

"Char" styles are created when a user selects part of a paragraph
(but
not the whole paragraph) and applies a paragraph style (such as
"Normal"
or "Heading 1") to it. To stop this from happening, educate the
user.

Scribe wrote:

I have styles creeping in to my template that are driving me
crazy.
For
example, a Normal style morphs into Normal Char and then another
appears,
Normal Char 1. I have turned off the "Define styles as you type"
option for
AutoFormat but this doesn't seem to help. How to I stop this from
happening?
My style sheet is getting huge.