How can I get changes to styles to "stick"?

[Nancy S]

I'm using Publisher 2002 (Office XP).

I have a custom style applied to text.

If I change the style (font size, font weight, line spacing), the change
appears in the document as I'd expect.

But if I save and close the document, and then reopen the file, the changes
to the style have disappeared. The text looks as it did before I made the
style changes.

I've used styles in Word for years and have never had this problem. What
might I be stumbling over that could cause this problem in Publisher?

Thanks.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You might have to apply the font style manually.

PUB2002: Font Schemes Do Not Appear to Apply Major and Minor Fonts Consistently
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289030/en-us

 

[Nancy S]

Thanks. Yes, applying the formatting to the text directly does seem to work
-- but I'm losing much of the functionality of styles.

The concept that's new to me seems to be this "major/minor" font that's
embedded in the Publisher template.

I started with the Eclipse template. The predominant styles are Title 3 and
Heading 2 (Verdana) and Body Text 3 (Garamond). The Font Scheme selected
appears to be "Newsletter Wizard" (Verdana/Verdana). The template has
*bunches* of styles (10 varieties of Accent Text, 7 heading styles, etc.).
When creating my own styles I fear I've violated some "rule" for how the
styles and Font Schemes and ??? interact.

For now, I'll just apply the formatting to the text boxes individually
(ugh!) but if there's any documentation on how this can work better let me
know. I'm doing only one issue of the newsletter and would like to turn the
template over to the next person with the styles cleaned up and "working".

Thanks much.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can format the Painter tool.

Quickly copy formatting with the Format Painter
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/HA010548921033.aspx?pid=CL100632931033

 

[Nancy S]

You can format the Painter tool.

Well, yes, thanks. I hadn't thought of using Painter. After years of living
in a CSS world where styles are encapsulated elsewhere rather than attached
directly to text, it still seems like a giant step backward. Do newer
versions of Publisher handle this better? at least as well as Word?

 

[Ed Bennett]

Well, yes, thanks. I hadn't thought of using Painter. After years of living
in a CSS world where styles are encapsulated elsewhere rather than attached
directly to text, it still seems like a giant step backward. Do newer
versions of Publisher handle this better? at least as well as Word?

No version of Publisher supports character styles; I'm not sure whether
paragraph styles are better-implemented in later versions of Publisher.

You could download the trial and try for yourself...

 

[Nancy S]

No version of Publisher supports character styles; I'm not sure whether
paragraph styles are better-implemented in later versions of Publisher.

Thanks, Ed. Paragraph styles would be sufficient.

You could download the trial and try for yourself...

I could, of course. But I'm apt to spend the time recruiting a replacement
who already owns and is familiar with InDesign or another more appropriate
tool.