Tab settings change

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When Word files are trasfered inter-office, we find the tab setting change each time a different user opens the document. How can we fix this so it appears the same for each person that needs to access the document?
 
Check in each document under Tools => Templates and Addins...

Make sure the prompt to update styles from the template is not checked.

If the tab settings involve automatically numbered paragraphs write back
because there is much more involved.
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When Word files are trasfered inter-office, we find the tab setting change
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each time a different user opens the document. How can we fix this so it
appears the same for each person that needs to access the document?
 
I checked the settings you suggested and found that the "update style..." was not checked. I also found that after I corrected the document and then saved it and returned to it later, that the tab settings did not stay the same. So the next time I go to open the document and print it out, I will have to move things around again. Maybe you can suggest some other way to accomplish what we are doing. Maybe columns? What we have is a document that hase a paragraph at the top and 3 or 4 columns of prices below it. I appreciate your help.
 
If you are working with parallel columns, you do want to use a table. See
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/tables.htm.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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Linda Ross said:
I checked the settings you suggested and found that the "update style..."
Click to expand...
was not checked. I also found that after I corrected the document and then
saved it and returned to it later, that the tab settings did not stay the
same. So the next time I go to open the document and print it out, I will
have to move things around again. Maybe you can suggest some other way to
accomplish what we are doing. Maybe columns? What we have is a document
that hase a paragraph at the top and 3 or 4 columns of prices below it. I
appreciate your help.
 
Thank you. I will pass the info along. They will just have to take the time when creating the document.
 
I checked the settings you suggested and found that the "update style..." was not checked. I also found that after I corrected the document and then saved it and returned to it later, that the tab settings did not stay the same. So the next time I go to open the document and print it out, I will have to move things around again. Maybe you can suggest some other way to accomplish what we are doing. Maybe columns? What we have is a document that hase a paragraph at the top and 3 or 4 columns of prices below it. I appreciate your help.
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Tab settings should not change spontaneously. Are you setting the tabs
in a style definition or are you using direct formatting? What are the
values that you set and what are they changing to? What version of
Word?

Bob S
 
This sounds like a situation where a table would be a better solution. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm

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was not checked. I also found that after I corrected the document and then
saved it and returned to it later, that the tab settings did not stay the
same. So the next time I go to open the document and print it out, I will
have to move things around again. Maybe you can suggest some other way to
accomplish what we are doing. Maybe columns? What we have is a document
that hase a paragraph at the top and 3 or 4 columns of prices below it. I
appreciate your help.
 
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