Formatting Disappears

[jen_writer]

Over the last few months, I've had several documents with various format
styles assigned that I've opened to find that half the text has reverted to
"Normal" style. I have to go through and reapply all of the format styles. It
usually happens with bullet/lists and tables.

Is there a way to prevent this so that I can have some confidence that
someone else opening one of these documents will not see a haphazard jumble
of text?

 

[Stefan Blom]

In the Templates and Add-Ins dialog box, is the "Automatically update
document styles" option checked? If so, clear it.