Unwanted Style Changes in 2007

[Chrisnuttall]

Hi



I'm a writer and my normal way to write is to put each chapter as a separate file, then compile them all at the end. However, whenever I use the automatic 'insert text' I get some odd glitches. Specifically, there are always two lines between the top of the page and the chapter header and, when I try to delete them, the style changes back to the original setting.

Does anyone know how to prevent it? Because it's really undoing the benefits of the whole system.

Chris

[Stefan Blom]

Are you using Insert as Link which inserts an INCLUDETEXT field referencing the content? In that case, I'd start looking for excessive paragraph marks in the source document.

[Chrisnuttall]

I don't think so.

Chris

[Stefan Blom]

What are you using then, specifically? How do you insert the files?

[Chrisnuttall]

I think I might have done that, sorry.

Thing is, there aren't any paragraph changes, as far as I can tell. Is there a way to set the style to always default to my preferred version?

Chris

[Stefan Blom]

If you pasted in the text, the default is to use the formatting in the target document.

Sometimes it's a good idea to simply reverse the process: if you have text in document A that you want to merge with text in document B, but you want the formatting of A, copy the text from B into A instead of the opposite.