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Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon
In your document, you have one custom style named "Heading."
You have attempted to attach different aliases or shortcuts to that style.
When, in a style name, you use a comma, you are giving the style an additional name that can be used. So:
- Heading,1
- Heading,3
- Heading,2
- Heading,4
are all the same "Heading" style. These are not different styles and they do not have the special attributes that go with the built-in Heading styles.
If you need to create your own custom heading styles, do not use commas in the name. The following names would be separate, different, styles.
- My Heading 1, mh1
- My Heading 2, mh2
- My Heading 3, mh3
- My Heading 4, mh4
They can be called by either of the two names assigned to each style. That is, "My Heading 3" can also be called using the name "mh3."
However, first, look at Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly |
Your explanation is helpful and makes sense, thank you. Except that in this instance I did not try and create my own custom heading. I have created custom styles which I have given a completely new name to and with no comma. I have never tried to rename an existing style. The odd thing is that it does that with every style that I click on so no style is able to be used because it immediately becomes faulty.
I am an academic editor so I use styles all the time for layout purposes. If I take a file that I have already applied styles to, I can see that they are all still functional when I open the file. I can update the table of contents so the previously applied styles are still stable. But if I want to change a level of heading, or add a new heading with a style, then that heading will be corrupt as it were and I cannot do any work to apply styles.
Is it possible for this aberation to have "crept in" as it were? Another possible explanation which strikes me now is that the day before this happened I took my computer to a company to re-install medical claims software because I had changed from a hard drive to an SSD drive, and they need to run the software via Microsoft SQL etc. which was then also installed. Is it possible for something they did to upset the styles? I did use my computer after that and it was fine on the first file I worked on and then after I closed that and started on another file I noticed the problem. One other thing to consider is that the file I worked on first arrived via Dropbox and I worked on it in Word because that is how it opened, but saved it straight back into Dropbox.
Whatever the case, it is possible to stop the process of the extra comma being added as if it is a short cut etc.?