Templates and Styles - style name overriding others

[Guest]

I have created a new template that works very well until you add a new style
while using the template. Although the styles all work when added to a body
of text, the name of the style being used does not appear correctly in the
styles and formatting panel on the right hand side (the toolbar). Rather than
showing the name of the style that is being used, it always shows the name of
the new style that has been created since opening the template. Any
suggestions for why this is and how to rectify it would be really welcome as
it is driving me mad!!

 

[Beth Melton]

What version of Word are you using? I'm not sure what you mean by "shows the
name of the new style that has been created". Are you saying you see
something like StyleName+Format?

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[Guest]

Thanks for your response.

I am using Word 2003. In the styles and formatting toolbar, where the name
of the style being used is displayed, e.g. normal. When you add a new style,
called for example 'picture', even if the text selected is in normal it will
display it as being in picture. There seems to be some setting in the toolbar
regarding new styles and their names overriding others?

 

[Beth Melton]

That sounds very odd. How are you creating the new style? Do you see the
same style selected in the Styles and Formatting Task Pane?

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[Guest]

Note that the Styles and Formatting pane may not show all styles (see "Big
idea 1" in the article at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html).

However, the "Formatting of selected text" box of the task pane should
always display the correct style.