Re: Word creates its own styles
- From: "Klaus Linke" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:18:34 +0200
Hi,
Are you sure that Word crashes only when the Styles and Formatting pane is
open?
One thing I'd check: Does the problematic template specify the save format
(Tools > Options > Save) to be something else but the current Word *.doc
format? Or does the template have any other code related to saving?
If you've read up on the char and char char styles, you probably know that
they are likely present in your doc anyway.
They are just cleverly hidden from view in (patched) versions 2002 and
above.
Microsoft moves toward mostly doing away with the difference between
paragraph styles and character styles. In the future, you'll be able to
apply "Body Text" to some "Heading 1" paragraph, or the other way round.
Behind the scenes, what is applied is a "Body Text Char" character style,
but you never get to see that. "Body Text" and "Body Text Char" are treaded
as a single "linked" style.
Bugs in the design of that feature led to "Char Char [...]" styles being
created, and other bugs. Most of these bugs seem to be fixed if you have
installed all the available Service packs, but the styles themselves may
still be hidden in older docs or templates.
And those invisible styles do appear visibly when you save in older formats,
or work on the documents in older versions of Word (say 2000).
So it seems likely that your crashing template must save in an older format.
It doesn't sound terribly likely to me that the crashes have a direct
connection to the char styles. If you want you can mail one of the
problematic custom templates to klaus.linke@xxxxxxxxx and I'll check a bit
into it.
Greetings,
Klaus
"gnorberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
When I try to close a document while the Styles and Formatting pane is
open,
word crashes. This only seems to be happening with documents attached to
three custom templates I've written, but to none of the several others I
have.
When I reopen the document after the crash, there are two new styles in
the
pane. (i.e. the original style is "mybodytext." The two new styles are
"mybodytext char" and "mybodytext char char." One is a paragraph style;
the
other is a character style). I have read countless reports in this
discussion group that say Word doesn't spontaneously create styles. We
are
just mistaking formatting for styles. Sorry, but these are not
formatting.
I have the pane set up not to show formatting. Also, when I do a Find and
Replace on the rogue styles, they are found and replaced. If I simply
close
and then reopen a document the rogue styles do not reappear. They only
come
back when word crashes as described above.
How do I keep Word from crashing like this?
.
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