The description you give has never been true of Word: it has always been
possible to define new styles and modify old ones (although these changes
could not be saved to the template if it was write-protected). Word 2003
does offer some additional protection options. If you're using Word 2002, I
suspect that what you are seeing are the "formatting" listings in the Styles
list. These are not styles. You won't see them if you clear the check box
for "Keep track of formatting" on the Edit tab of Tools | Options, but
seeing them does at least alert you to the fact that direct formatting has
been applied to a paragraph in a given style, which I gather you want to
avoid.
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Carolyn said:
In earlier versions of Word, once you defined a style sheet and applied it
to a document, the document was forced to take on the formatting
characteristics defined in the style sheet, and could not continue to have
its own styles. That no longer seems to be the case, however. I have
meticulously defined the styles I want in my document, and included these
styles as part of a master template. Nevertheless, the styles are
continually corrupted with unwanted styles which I am unable to delete.
Does anyone have any tips on how to prevent this from happening? I am
working with a document which has 30 chapters, and over 1,000 pages, and I
MUST find a way to manage it well.
