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Old 11-18-2009, 10:30 AM
sandy sandy is offline Why won't Word styles behave? Windows XP Why won't Word styles behave? Office 2003
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Default Why won't Word styles behave?

It seems in every project I do with MS Word, at some point the styles start behaving badly. For example:

* I apply a style to a paragraph and another style gets whacked out. Say, I call one paragraph a heading and all of my bullets on the bullet style disappear, or the tabs are suddenly set to 5 inches instead of 1/4 inch.

* I modify a style and the modifications don't show up.

* Numbering of pages, paragraphs, sections... don't even get me started.



I have never had this problem with framemaker, and among tech writers I know Word is generally looked at like the app to avoid at all costs. At the moment I am stuck with it. Is there a way to get it to stop acting like a mischevious toddler?

I am not inexperienced and not trying to do anything complicated. Just want to create a simple user guide with steps, numbers, graphics, etc.
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Old 11-19-2009, 09:22 AM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Why won't Word styles behave? Windows XP Why won't Word styles behave? Office 2007
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There are various background controls which may be conspiring to affect your styles. Since you're not a novice, I assume you mean actual styles, and not formatting of Normal paragraphs and text.

Here are a couple starting places to look (I don't have 2003 in front of me, but I'm fairly sure of these).

Tools/Options/Edit: Uncheck the Keep track of formatting box.

Tools/Options/Autocorrect: Look through the items on Autoformat and Autoformat as you type tabs.

Tools/Templates and Add-ins: Uncheck the Auto update box.

Does this help?
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