Re: Word 2007 style editing and corruption

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I used to often see things like items 1 and 3 while editing W2003 documents.
Almost very time, multiple unlinked styles ( char char char, etc.) were
present in my document. Char styles are not likely to be made in W2007
(because of the changed pasting behavior), but if the documents originated in
W2003 or are going back and forth between W2007 and W2003, they may be there.
They may not show up in the styles pane, even when "all styles" are displayed
(because it does not display hidden styles). Look for them in manage styles
or the organizer.

Delete them --after making sure they are based on normal-- but know that you
may damage styles and numbered lists in the process. So run open and repair,
and after saving the repaired file, fix any styles or list problems that
remain. (Styles settings may have changed and lists may be without bullets
and such. Most of the time I find no problems after running open and repair
and those that are there have been minor. Still, make sure you can retreat
to a previous version.) Do this to the template and all files based on the
template--or at least those that are misbehaving. As part of my "prevention
program", I delete unused user-defined styles and remove unused built-in
styles from the document or template. That way when a char style is created
(back in W2003), there are fewer styles for it to become entangled with.

Your item 2 may be happening because the document defaults have not been
changed to match what you've set in the normal style. That can happen for
styles based on no style (in other words, on document defaults).

HTH,
Pam


Kay H wrote:
I’ve been working with Word styles for years and have never had this sort of
problem before. I have the usual “helpful features” (Preserve Styles, Define
Styles based on your Formatting, Keep Track of Formatting) turned off. We
generally save our documents in compatibility mode (.doc) rather than .docx
because our clients need to be able to access them easily. Therefore we do
not use Word’s theme-based style sets at all. We've had Office 2007 for about
15 months and have had none of these problems until recently. Here’s what’s
been happening lately:

1. Paragraph styles in my documents sometimes acquire attributes from other
styles in that document. Example: hanging indents of up to 1” creep into many
text styles in a document. None of these styles are linked to Normal or to
each other, but Normal frequently changes itself to look something like
Heading 1: large hanging indent, large space before and after. Often when I
open an existing document to edit it, after a few minutes of working on it
the styles will suddenly corrupt (sometimes I actually see it happen),
acquiring those large hanging indents and space before.

2. On other occasions several styles acquire attributes of the default
Normal definition in Word 2007 (10 pts space after, line spacing 1.15) which
I long ago changed in the Normal style in my Normal.dotx. Again, the
corrupting styles are not linked to Normal or to each other and should not be
going anywhere!

3. Today I was modifying headers and other styles in a document (beginning
the process of developing a new style set for a new template) and after I had
finished modifying one style and went to another style, the second style had
taken on the attributes of the style I had just modified. This happened
several times in just a few minutes, and it happened to styles that were not
linked to each other. Eventually the document crashed big-time on me.

No one else in my office is reporting style problems, and they would
complain to me if they did, since developing styles and templates is part of
my job. We all work on the same Word docs based on our company’s templates.
What is going on here?

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