URGENT - Char added to styles in XP

[Guest]

I am finding that styles get corrupted or automatically
modified in Word XP. The modified style then appears in
the task pane as MyStyle Char Char Char and so on.

Any thoughts appreciated
Tim Wells
IT Professional

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Tim,

If you go to the Google groups at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Microsoft.public.word&btnG=Google+Search

and do a search in the Word newsgroups for Char Char, you will turn up a
number of threads, including that at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...rKW9AUFDHA.1016%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl&rnum=2

which contains an explanation of this problem. I believe it was fixed by
one of the Service Packs for 2002.

To get immediate answers to your questions, search Google Groups.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Terry]

Yes, any help on this would be great! Need to know why
this happens and how to replicate it and also how to fix
it. I see the errors in many documents I didn't create
but I can't seem to make it show up on my documents. And
now they want me to fix the ones that have these char
char styles. Also, they sometimes complain that the char
builds on each other until it becomes char, char, char,
etc. AND then deletes the original style!! What's going
on? thank for anyone's help in advance.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Terry

The char char char problem should be fixed in the latest 2002 SR, so
download that first.

You will still sometimes see an alias created (e.g. BodyText, Body Text
char) if a paragraph style is applied to characters - sometimes a valid
thing to do, but often an error of selection before applying style. In this
case you can rename the style to remove the alias if you need to.

Sometimes the char style appears as a separate style, and then you cannot
delete it without deleting the paragraph style it is based on. If this is
the problem Cindy Meister has a macro to do the job - see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MyFavTip.htm

I can't speak from experience, but I've also heard that there is less of a
problem if you turn off Tools > Options > Edit 'Keep track of formatting'.