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I've used Weverka and Poremsky's "Word 2002: The Complete Reference" to
bring me up to speed after updating from Word 6.0. I like it for the
combination of clear instructions and explanatory text.
Regarding styles which keep changing, Weverka asks:
1. Is the "Automatically update" box checked in the "Modify style" dialog
box for the style that changes?
2. Are your styles based on a style that has the "Automatically update" box
checked? When the base style changes, so will the other styles which are
based on it (or "linked to it", as Weverka says).
Hope this helps,
Darlene Boyle
darlene_boyle -at- hotmail -dot- com
"Long, Michael" <Michael -dot- Long -at- medstat -dot- com> wrote in message news:188994 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
>
> Since upgrading to XP and Word 2002 we have had increasing problems
> controlling Word styles. Can anyone provide simple tips or a reference
> source that will at least explain the style facility in Word 2002? It
seems
> to manipulate styles differently than previous Word versions and does so
> even more unreliably and unpredictably, as unimaginable as that seems.
> It would be nice to know how to stop it from dynamically creating styles,
if
> nothing else. Are template/Word versions a factor?
>
> Or, can anyone recommend one book over all: --Word 2002 The Complete
> Reference, --Word Version 2002 Inside Out, or --Special Edition Using Word
> 2002?
>
> Examples:
> --Bullets and/or their hanging indents will disappear throughout a file.
The
> style in the file will not be affected by copying the style in again from
> the template, and must be modified to reflect the template. After fixing
> that, you discover that some hidden text, but not all, has become
unhidden.
> --When copying new content between files attached to the same template,
> bullets will appear on all Indent styles throughout the receiving file.
> Numbered lists applied to Normal willfully continue the previous numbered
> list.
> --Today we discovered that a template itself had reverted its body and
list
> styles to the default 12 point, and had changed the lowest level heading
to
> Normal following.
>
> For a year or so we've been gradually "cleaning up" our templates and
> standardizing styles throughout files, partly in preparation for
converting
> to FrameMaker. A moderate amount of research went into replacing Word's
most
> troublesome styles and all was working fairly smoothly--until XP and Word
> 2002.
>
> Mike Long
> Team Leader, User Documentation
> The MEDSTAT Group
>http://www.medstat.com
> 734-913-3975 Phone
> 734-913-3200 FAX
> michael -dot- long -at- medstat -dot- com
>
>
>
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