How do I keep Word from mangling style settings?

[Guest]

Word will often, arbitrarily change my style settings. If apply a style
already in use elsewhere in the document to another paragraph, Word will
change the tabs and paragraph indents for the style. I then have to fix the
style to get it to display properly again. It seems to only do this with
styles that use bullets.

This has been a problem for the last several versions of Word. Is there a
way to keep it from doing this?

 

[Margaret Aldis]

You need to set the tabs and indents via the Numbering format for the style,
not via the Paragraph dialog.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Tools > Options > Edit > Prompt to Update Style (should be checked, always)

Tools > AutoCorrect Options > AutoFormat As You Type
Uncheck "Define Styles Based on Your Formatting."

Check your style definitions. You do _not_ want automatically update
checked.

If that doesn't do it for you, take a look at
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm.


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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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[Charles Kenyon]

Missed the part about the bullets. Sorry.

Set up your styles using the steps in
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bullets/controlbullets.html.
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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