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Subject:RE: why does Word 2003 drops all my Table styles From:Mike Tulloch <mike -at- infoinfocus -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:43:21 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Paul Neshamkin wrote:
>
> I have always been told, and have always taught that Normal.dot (the global
> template) should not be altered. You should always associate your documents
> with custom templates that you have created containing the styles
> appropriate for your documentation. I have been working with very large and
> very complex documents since Word for Windows 1.0, and I have never had
> difficulty saving styles or losing styles. I am currently using SP-2 and
> have noticed no changes.
I experienced Normal.dot corruption several times while working on a
RoboHelp X5 project. I *think* that RoboHelp modifies the
Normal.dot directly, which causes all sorts of stability problems.
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