Adding "Char" to style name

[Guest]

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

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[Guest]

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not the expert on this (I think Shauna Kelly is). It seems to be reduced
if you turn off "Keep track of formatting," and I believe one of the service
packs also helped. Beyond that, you just have to be careful when applying
styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

Hi Suzanne,

Do you know which service pack helped?
Regards,
Rachel

I'm not the expert on this (I think Shauna Kelly is). It seems to be reduced
if you turn off "Keep track of formatting," and I believe one of the service
packs also helped. Beyond that, you just have to be careful when applying
styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Guest]

Hi Suzanne,

Do you know which service pack helped?
Regards,
Rachel

I'm not the expert on this (I think Shauna Kelly is). It seems to be reduced
if you turn off "Keep track of formatting," and I believe one of the service
packs also helped. Beyond that, you just have to be careful when applying
styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=902064

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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Hi Suzanne,

Do you know which service pack helped?
Regards,
Rachel

I'm not the expert on this (I think Shauna Kelly is). It seems to be
reduced if you turn off "Keep track of formatting," and I believe
one of the service packs also helped. Beyond that, you just have to
be careful when applying styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since
I am involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time
trying to explain it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style
name] char, char, char. Is there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of
knowledge goes even further!"


:

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a
paragraph style to part of a paragraph (selected text); the
paragraph style is applied as a character style, while the
underlying paragraph style remains the same. They can be very
difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style
are reset to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get
changed by Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table
Text" gets changed to "Table Text Char". The styles this happens
with are paragraph styles and remain as such even after the name
change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=902064

--
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>

Hi Suzanne,

Do you know which service pack helped?
Regards,
Rachel

I'm not the expert on this (I think Shauna Kelly is). It seems to be
reduced if you turn off "Keep track of formatting," and I believe
one of the service packs also helped. Beyond that, you just have to
be careful when applying styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since
I am involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time
trying to explain it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style
name] char, char, char. Is there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of
knowledge goes even further!"


:

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a
paragraph style to part of a paragraph (selected text); the
paragraph style is applied as a character style, while the
underlying paragraph style remains the same. They can be very
difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style
are reset to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get
changed by Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table
Text" gets changed to "Table Text Char". The styles this happens
with are paragraph styles and remain as such even after the name
change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Guest]

One way to avoid having "Char" added to your style names is to always,
_always_, ALWAYS use Paste Special/Unformatted Text to paste text from one
document into another. In our office, we virtually eliminated the appearance
of those "Char" styles by using Paste Special/Unformatted for everything,
then formatting the inserted text after the paste.

CB/Cyndie
Tulsa, OK

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

See also the following KB articles:

Text that was formatted with a paragraph style is formatted with a character
style when you paste the text to another document in Word 2003 or in Word 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902064/en-us

Some style names may change when a document that is saved in Word 2002 is
opened in Word 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917703/en-us

Also, note that Word 2007 makes it possible to avoid the "char char" bug: to
check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

One way to avoid having "Char" added to your style names is to always,
_always_, ALWAYS use Paste Special/Unformatted Text to paste text from one
document into another. In our office, we virtually eliminated the appearance
of those "Char" styles by using Paste Special/Unformatted for everything,
then formatting the inserted text after the paste.

CB/Cyndie
Tulsa, OK

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Guest]

<< ...check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane >>

Does that cause outline styles that are linked to each other NOT to be
linked? If so, I wouldn't want to click on that option.

Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK

See also the following KB articles:

Text that was formatted with a paragraph style is formatted with a character
style when you paste the text to another document in Word 2003 or in Word 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902064/en-us

Some style names may change when a document that is saved in Word 2002 is
opened in Word 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917703/en-us

Also, note that Word 2007 makes it possible to avoid the "char char" bug: to
check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

One way to avoid having "Char" added to your style names is to always,
_always_, ALWAYS use Paste Special/Unformatted Text to paste text from one
document into another. In our office, we virtually eliminated the appearance
of those "Char" styles by using Paste Special/Unformatted for everything,
then formatting the inserted text after the paste.

CB/Cyndie
Tulsa, OK

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"


:

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I believe this refers only to linkage between paragraph and character
styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

<< ...check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane >>

Does that cause outline styles that are linked to each other NOT to be
linked? If so, I wouldn't want to click on that option.

Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK

See also the following KB articles:

Text that was formatted with a paragraph style is formatted with a character
style when you paste the text to another document in Word 2003 or in Word 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902064/en-us

Some style names may change when a document that is saved in Word 2002 is
opened in Word 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917703/en-us

Also, note that Word 2007 makes it possible to avoid the "char char" bug: to
check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

One way to avoid having "Char" added to your style names is to always,
_always_, ALWAYS use Paste Special/Unformatted Text to paste text from one
document into another. In our office, we virtually eliminated the appearance
of those "Char" styles by using Paste Special/Unformatted for everything,
then formatting the inserted text after the paste.

CB/Cyndie
Tulsa, OK

:

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"


:

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Yes, it does.

Of course, if the option also affected multilevel/outline lists, it would be
useless.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

I believe this refers only to linkage between paragraph and character
styles.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

<< ...check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane >>

Does that cause outline styles that are linked to each other NOT to be
linked? If so, I wouldn't want to click on that option.

Cyndie Browning
Tulsa, OK

See also the following KB articles:

Text that was formatted with a paragraph style is formatted with a character
style when you paste the text to another document in Word 2003 or in Word 2002
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902064/en-us

Some style names may change when a document that is saved in Word 2002 is
opened in Word 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917703/en-us

Also, note that Word 2007 makes it possible to avoid the "char char" bug: to
check the "Disable Linked Styles" box in the Styles pane.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


:

One way to avoid having "Char" added to your style names is to
always,
_always_, ALWAYS use Paste Special/Unformatted Text to paste text
from one
document into another. In our office, we virtually eliminated the appearance
of those "Char" styles by using Paste Special/Unformatted for everything,
then formatting the inserted text after the paste.

CB/Cyndie
Tulsa, OK

:

Hi Suzanne,

This is something that also drives me C-R-A-Z-Y - especially since
I am
involved in training new users ... I spend FAR to much time trying to explain
it. It gets worse when it mutates into [style name] char, char, char. Is
there any way to stop it happening?

Regards,
--
Sharon Roffey
Community spirit: "A little knowledge goes a long way ... a lot of knowledge
goes even further!"


:

Styles such as Table Text Char are created when you apply a paragraph style
to part of a paragraph (selected text); the paragraph style is applied as a
character style, while the underlying paragraph style remains the same. They
can be very difficult to eradicate because if you delete the Char style, you
also delete the paragraph style, and all paragraphs in that style are reset
to Normal.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

As I'm working on a document why do some of my style names get changed by
Word to include "Char" in the name? E.g., "Table Text" gets changed to
"Table Text Char". The styles this happens with are paragraph styles and
remain as such even after the name change.
I'd appreciate any info.