Bug in styles next paragraph setting

J

Jay

I'm using a lot of custom styles in a doc.

I have one called 'Day' and I've set the following paragraph to also be
'Day'

However, word has invented some other styles based on this, one is called
'Day _ Left 0 cm, First'

The problem is that it insists on setting the next paragraph to this style
rather than what I have specified. I have to do a 'select all instances' and
reset the style each time. In the Modify Style dialog box, the 'Style for
following paragraph' is set to Day as it should be.

I also notice 'Day' appears twice in styles and formatting list (in addition
to the derivatives). Both have the same number of instances.

Any ideas how to get around this?

Jay.
 
J

Jay

A possibly related problem:

I'm editing a document with numbered lists (body style paragraphs). The
positioning of the numbers has suddenly changed so that when I use
automatically numbered lists, the new numbers are not indented at all e.g.

1. old item
2. old item
3. new item
4. new item

Now if I select the number 3 and choose decrease indent, it puts in the
correct indent i.e.

1. old item
2. old item
3. new item
4. new item

Note this is a different document from the one that was causing style
problems but the problems started at the same time.

Jay.
 
J

Jay

Also with cursor on the '3' selecting the format->bullets and numbering and
just clicking 'ok' corrects the alignment.

Seems the tabs are being lost somehow.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

What you're seeing are not styles but "formatting." You can avoid this by
clearing the check box for "Keep track of formatting" on the Edit tab of
Tools | Options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Try setting up your numbering as described in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html or at least
use a numbered style; don't ever use Word's Numbering button (or even the
Format | Numbering dialog directly) to apply numbering, especially outline
numbering.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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J

Jay

Well thanks again for replying.

I did some tests using the link you suggest. Not sure I really understand
what's happening but I couldn't get any improvement. My feeling is that this
is the 'tabs' problem I mentioned in my other post. I'm hoping if that
problem can be solved, this issue will go away.

Jay.
 
K

Klaus Linke

Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
What you're seeing are not styles but "formatting." You can
avoid this by clearing the check box for "Keep track of formatting"
on the Edit tab of Tools | Options.
Click to expand...


Hi Suzanne, Jay,

Though this will only hide the problem, not solve it?

I often notice that Word seems to add manual formatting on its own, but have
not done much checking as to the circumstances and causes.

I guess previous versions may have done it too, and that the new display of
manual formatting in the styles pane/dropdown just makes it obvious.

BTW, an easy way to get rid of the spurious manual paragraph formatting is
to replace the style with itself (leaving "Find what" and "Replace with"
empty).
Or if you are sure that you don't want to have any manual paragraph
formatting in the document at all: Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q.

Also BTW: I can't figure out the "First" in your example 'Day _ Left 0 cm,
First'.
If it's no bother, could you mail me a file with it (to my private mail
address)?

Greetings,
Klaus
 
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