I have a Word doc with all the styles setup it requires. From what I have seen and read, all the styles saved in a Word doc will open up that way on anybody's computer as it's already saved with the doc.



Anyway, I've experience some users opening the doc and the styles do not show up. All of these computers have identical setups (windows 10/office 16), so not sure why this would be happening.

All of these other user's have not setup a Normal.dotm, but that should not matter if the styles are setup within the doc they are opening.

Is this correct and maybe a reason why this could be happening?

1. Every installation of Word has a Normal.dotm if any change in defaults is made.
2. If your document is set up to automatically update styles from the template, it will change when opened on different computers.

See What happens when I send my document to someone else? Will Word mess up my formatting? by Shauna Kelly.

Thanks Charles. This indeed fixed the problem.