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> Are any of your styles modified versions of the ones
> that
> came with Word? The one thing I always do when
> creating a new Word template is create new styles
> with
> unique new names that are not based on existing
> styles
> in normal.dot. Duplicate styles and styles based on
> other
> styles always seem to result in dueling formatting
> when I
> move doc files from one system to another.
>
> Also, check your systems to make sure options like
> creating new styles as you type, and automatically
> update
> styles are disabled.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Kerschbaum" <kbombbilly01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>
>
> > Our dept. is trying to create a new Word template
> for
> > our documents, but the template looks different on
> > each PC. We've especially run into problems when
> > upgrading from Office 2000 to 2003, but some PCs
> with
> > 2003 can view the templates just fine (it doesn't
> seem
> > to make a difference whether we're on Win2000 or
> XP,
> > either). The style names are listed correctly in
> the
> > styles list, but some of them don't look anything
> like
> > they're supposed to, and their style settings
> aren't
> > right either. Any ideas??
>
>
>
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