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Style Char problem
Our business uses an attached stylesheet to make our documentation look
consistent. Occasionally we have problems with styles added by Word when our subject matter experts add content and don't use the stylesheet properly. I can copy some styles from the stylesheet to solve some problems and have been able to delete some styles to solve others, however there are some things that baffle me. Lately we have found that some users with XP for Windows and Word are getting different fonts for the same "Char" style. This throws off the formatting. There are some files with a "Table" style which is Arial 10 and the "Table Char" style which is the same on some computers, but Arial 12 on others. A Find on the Char style says there is no content with that style. Then when the style is deleted, quite a few of the cells of the tables will go to "Normal" (Word replaces the deleted style with Normal style). Help? |
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Style Char problem
See if this helps:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message news Our business uses an attached stylesheet to make our documentation look consistent. Occasionally we have problems with styles added by Word when our subject matter experts add content and don't use the stylesheet properly. I can copy some styles from the stylesheet to solve some problems and have been able to delete some styles to solve others, however there are some things that baffle me. Lately we have found that some users with XP for Windows and Word are getting different fonts for the same "Char" style. This throws off the formatting. There are some files with a "Table" style which is Arial 10 and the "Table Char" style which is the same on some computers, but Arial 12 on others. A Find on the Char style says there is no content with that style. Then when the style is deleted, quite a few of the cells of the tables will go to "Normal" (Word replaces the deleted style with Normal style). Help? |
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Style Char problem
That solves part of the mystery. I didn't know that the styles were linked.
Can you also tell me why that "Char" style is 12 point font in some documents and 10 point in others? Something with the stylesheet? "Stefan Blom" wrote: See if this helps: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message news Our business uses an attached stylesheet to make our documentation look consistent. Occasionally we have problems with styles added by Word when our subject matter experts add content and don't use the stylesheet properly. I can copy some styles from the stylesheet to solve some problems and have been able to delete some styles to solve others, however there are some things that baffle me. Lately we have found that some users with XP for Windows and Word are getting different fonts for the same "Char" style. This throws off the formatting. There are some files with a "Table" style which is Arial 10 and the "Table Char" style which is the same on some computers, but Arial 12 on others. A Find on the Char style says there is no content with that style. Then when the style is deleted, quite a few of the cells of the tables will go to "Normal" (Word replaces the deleted style with Normal style). Help? |
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Style Char problem
Assuming that the char styles were created the way Cindy Meister
describes in her article, their formatting would depend on which paragraph style was applied to the selection. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message ... That solves part of the mystery. I didn't know that the styles were linked. Can you also tell me why that "Char" style is 12 point font in some documents and 10 point in others? Something with the stylesheet? "Stefan Blom" wrote: See if this helps: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message news Our business uses an attached stylesheet to make our documentation look consistent. Occasionally we have problems with styles added by Word when our subject matter experts add content and don't use the stylesheet properly. I can copy some styles from the stylesheet to solve some problems and have been able to delete some styles to solve others, however there are some things that baffle me. Lately we have found that some users with XP for Windows and Word are getting different fonts for the same "Char" style. This throws off the formatting. There are some files with a "Table" style which is Arial 10 and the "Table Char" style which is the same on some computers, but Arial 12 on others. A Find on the Char style says there is no content with that style. Then when the style is deleted, quite a few of the cells of the tables will go to "Normal" (Word replaces the deleted style with Normal style). Help? |
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Style Char problem
I worded that badly. The same document will have text of a style show as
Arial 10 on one computer and Arial 12 on another. Is that a difference in stylesheets? I was suspecting the "Char" font to be at fault, but don't have ready access to a computer that changes the font. If we could just identify the "bad" text, it would help, but we have to rely on those few people we know of who have the problem and they're getting annoyed at us asking them questions. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Assuming that the char styles were created the way Cindy Meister describes in her article, their formatting would depend on which paragraph style was applied to the selection. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message ... That solves part of the mystery. I didn't know that the styles were linked. Can you also tell me why that "Char" style is 12 point font in some documents and 10 point in others? Something with the stylesheet? "Stefan Blom" wrote: See if this helps: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message news Our business uses an attached stylesheet to make our documentation look consistent. Occasionally we have problems with styles added by Word when our subject matter experts add content and don't use the stylesheet properly. I can copy some styles from the stylesheet to solve some problems and have been able to delete some styles to solve others, however there are some things that baffle me. Lately we have found that some users with XP for Windows and Word are getting different fonts for the same "Char" style. This throws off the formatting. There are some files with a "Table" style which is Arial 10 and the "Table Char" style which is the same on some computers, but Arial 12 on others. A Find on the Char style says there is no content with that style. Then when the style is deleted, quite a few of the cells of the tables will go to "Normal" (Word replaces the deleted style with Normal style). Help? |
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Style Char problem
Is "Automatically update document styles" checked in Tools | Templates
and Add-Ins? If not, the style definitions shouldn't change. (Even if the option is checked, a computer must have a template with the correct name, or nothing will change, when you open the document on that computer.) To rule out document corruption, see also http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message ... I worded that badly. The same document will have text of a style show as Arial 10 on one computer and Arial 12 on another. Is that a difference in stylesheets? I was suspecting the "Char" font to be at fault, but don't have ready access to a computer that changes the font. If we could just identify the "bad" text, it would help, but we have to rely on those few people we know of who have the problem and they're getting annoyed at us asking them questions. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Assuming that the char styles were created the way Cindy Meister describes in her article, their formatting would depend on which paragraph style was applied to the selection. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message ... That solves part of the mystery. I didn't know that the styles were linked. Can you also tell me why that "Char" style is 12 point font in some documents and 10 point in others? Something with the stylesheet? "Stefan Blom" wrote: See if this helps: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Mary Chris" wrote in message news Our business uses an attached stylesheet to make our documentation look consistent. Occasionally we have problems with styles added by Word when our subject matter experts add content and don't use the stylesheet properly. I can copy some styles from the stylesheet to solve some problems and have been able to delete some styles to solve others, however there are some things that baffle me. Lately we have found that some users with XP for Windows and Word are getting different fonts for the same "Char" style. This throws off the formatting. There are some files with a "Table" style which is Arial 10 and the "Table Char" style which is the same on some computers, but Arial 12 on others. A Find on the Char style says there is no content with that style. Then when the style is deleted, quite a few of the cells of the tables will go to "Normal" (Word replaces the deleted style with Normal style). Help? |
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