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Subject:Re: Problem with Styles in MS Word From:Diane Giangrossi <dgiangrossi -at- BAKERHILL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:51:54 -0500
Did you create the styles by modifying Word's predefined styles? I had the
same problem when I did that. What I ended up having to do was start from
scratch -- go back to the standard Normal template -- and define the styles
with totally new names, instead of modifying the defaults.
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> From: Xiang Li [SMTP:xli -at- FEDERALAPD -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, 08 June, 1999 10:44 AM
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> Subject: Problem with Styles in MS Word
>
> Hi, Fellow Technical Writers:
>
> I am working on a manual in word. Everything works fine except for the
> styles I set up for the manual. The styles that I set numbering for, the
> numbering is always changed every time I open the file, I have to reapply
> the styles and rebuild the links. Sometimes word changes the indents of
> the
> styles, too. This is a huge pain for us. If anyone out there knows the
> solution to this problem, please let me know, I would greatly appreciate
> it
> because this problem has caused a lot of pains for me recently!
>
> Xiang
>
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