Styles keep changing

Sudders · External Since: Aug 01, 2007 Posts: 1

I am writing a very long document in word 2002 (say 300 pages) divided
into 7 chapters. All the chapters are based on one template (Thesis).
All the documents based on this style are set to update styles. The
template contains a style called Caption Body which applies the
following: Single line spacing, size: 10pt.

Everytime I open a document the style reverts to being the same as
Normal. If I manually change it back it stays for that session, but
once I save it and re-open it goes back to being the same formatting as
Normal, as does all text written in the style!

Anyone got any ideas about whats going and how I stop it?

Ian

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Suzanne S. Barnhill · External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 24065

When you change the style, do you check the "Add to template" box in the
Modify Style dialog? If not, then the style is being updated from the
(unmodified) template every time you open the document.

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"Sudders" <Sudders.f639c5.DeleteThis@officefrustration.com> wrote in message
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> I am writing a very long document in word 2002 (say 300 pages) divided
> into 7 chapters. All the chapters are based on one template (Thesis).
> All the documents based on this style are set to update styles. The
> template contains a style called Caption Body which applies the
> following: Single line spacing, size: 10pt.
>
> Everytime I open a document the style reverts to being the same as
> Normal. If I manually change it back it stays for that session, but
> once I save it and re-open it goes back to being the same formatting as
> Normal, as does all text written in the style!
>
> Anyone got any ideas about whats going and how I stop it?
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
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> Sudders

Sudders · External Since: Aug 01, 2007 Posts: 1

I've tried with both the add to template checked and unchecked... But
this shouldn't be a problem as the style is already as I want it in the
template .... the dcument seems to be ingnoring this however.

Suzanne S. Barnhill;2289175 Wrote:
> When you change the style, do you check the "Add to template" box in
> the
> Modify Style dialog? If not, then the style is being updated from the
> (unmodified) template every time you open the document.
>
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> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
> newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
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> "Sudders" Sudders.f639c5 RemoveThis @officefrustration.com wrote in message
> news:Sudders.f639c5@officefrustration.com...-
>
> I am writing a very long document in word 2002 (say 300 pages)
> divided
> into 7 chapters. All the chapters are based on one template (Thesis).
> All the documents based on this style are set to update styles. The
> template contains a style called Caption Body which applies the
> following: Single line spacing, size: 10pt.
>
> Everytime I open a document the style reverts to being the same as
> Normal. If I manually change it back it stays for that session, but
> once I save it and re-open it goes back to being the same formatting
> as
> Normal, as does all text written in the style!
>
> Anyone got any ideas about whats going and how I stop it?
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sudders-

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Sudders

Sudders · External Since: Aug 01, 2007 Posts: 1

Apart from the style is already the way it is supposed to be in the
template. The template has the font size set to 10, but when I open up
the document, all the text formatted with that style changes to size
12.

Henk57;2290298 Wrote:
> I recently experienced the same problem. Indeed, the "Add to template"
> as Suzanne suggests didn't work for me (Frustratingly, I still dont
> know why). Anyway, I corrected it by opening the template (the .dot --
> NOT the .doc) and made the changes there. Then I attached the template
> again to the .doc via Tools/Templates and Add-ins..., making sure to
> check "automatically update document styles". I doubt it is the most
> efficient way but it worked for me, so maybe it's of use to you.
> GL, Henk

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Henk57 · External Since: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 1

My guess is that yr document is linked to another, maybe more or less
similar, template.

Sudders;2290299 Wrote:
> Apart from the style is already the way it is supposed to be in the
> template. The template has the font size set to 10, but when I open up
> the document, all the text formatted with that style changes to size
> 12.

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