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  #1  
Old February 23rd, 2010, 11:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
HelenaB
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The table is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB
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Old February 23rd, 2010, 12:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

Text formatting is complicated within tables; see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html.

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"HelenaB" wrote in message
...
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style
has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the
document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The table
is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset
Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick
up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB



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Old February 23rd, 2010, 02:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

In addition to what Stefan has said, make sure that "Define styles based on
your formatting" is not checked in Tools | AutoCorrect Options | AutoFormat
As You Type.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"HelenaB" wrote in message
...
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style
has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the
document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The table
is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset
Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick
up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB


  #4  
Old February 23rd, 2010, 03:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

Good point.

Indeed, "Define styles..." actually means "Apply style more or less at
random." sigh

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Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
In addition to what Stefan has said, make sure that "Define styles based
on your formatting" is not checked in Tools | AutoCorrect Options |
AutoFormat As You Type.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"HelenaB" wrote in message
...
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style
has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the
document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The table
is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset
Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick
up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB





  #5  
Old February 23rd, 2010, 07:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

In my (limited) experience, it may mean "Apply a style whose formatting more
or less matches the formatting you've applied." But when I had Footer-style
paragraphs turning up in tables, I *knew* it was not my doing!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Good point.

Indeed, "Define styles..." actually means "Apply style more or less at
random." sigh

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
In addition to what Stefan has said, make sure that "Define styles based
on your formatting" is not checked in Tools | AutoCorrect Options |
AutoFormat As You Type.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"HelenaB" wrote in message
...
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style
has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style
is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the
document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The
table
is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the
style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset
Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick
up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB







  #6  
Old February 23rd, 2010, 07:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

When I wrote "at random" I was actually thinking of the Footer style. I
sometimes see it applied to paragraphs outside of the footer area (body
text, footnotes) in documents I receive from students (and colleagues). I
could be wrong, but it does seem to be less of a problem with Word 2007 than
with previous versions.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
In my (limited) experience, it may mean "Apply a style whose formatting
more or less matches the formatting you've applied." But when I had
Footer-style paragraphs turning up in tables, I *knew* it was not my
doing!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Good point.

Indeed, "Define styles..." actually means "Apply style more or less at
random." sigh

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
In addition to what Stefan has said, make sure that "Define styles based
on your formatting" is not checked in Tools | AutoCorrect Options |
AutoFormat As You Type.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"HelenaB" wrote in message
...
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style
has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style
is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the
document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The
table
is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the
style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset
Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to
pick
up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB










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Old February 24th, 2010, 04:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

Actually I've seen the behavior you describe when there are convoluted char
styles in the file. They are pretty much unavoidable in Word 2003. And they
cause the weirdest behavior: The header or footer style suddenly becomes
TOC5 or the size of Body Text becomes 3 points every time I open the file.
Getting rid of char (broken) styles is the only sure fix for this. But it
has steadily gotten harder to do that because the MS programmers seem to
think that we are imagining these problems and have taken great pains to
hide the broken styles from users. Styles either don't break or are much
less likely to break in W2007. I work mainly in W2007 but many of the files
I get were done in 2003 and they almost always have char styles. So I will
be so glad when my clients abandon W2003.

I doubt that table styles are the cause of your symptoms but just in case,
make sure that no font characteristics have been set in the table style (if
they have, set them back to the settings in normal or if, that doesn't work,
delete the table style and start over) and that you are using paragraph
styles to format the text in the tables.

HTH,
Pam

HelenaB wrote:
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The table is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB


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Old February 24th, 2010, 11:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

For what it's worth, here is how I discovered char styles in Word 2007: In
the Find and Replace dialog box, click More, and then click Format, Style.
Take a look at the style listings in the dialog box. :-(

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Microsoft Word MVP




"Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" wrote:

Actually I've seen the behavior you describe when there are convoluted char
styles in the file. They are pretty much unavoidable in Word 2003. And they
cause the weirdest behavior: The header or footer style suddenly becomes
TOC5 or the size of Body Text becomes 3 points every time I open the file.
Getting rid of char (broken) styles is the only sure fix for this. But it
has steadily gotten harder to do that because the MS programmers seem to
think that we are imagining these problems and have taken great pains to
hide the broken styles from users. Styles either don't break or are much
less likely to break in W2007. I work mainly in W2007 but many of the files
I get were done in 2003 and they almost always have char styles. So I will
be so glad when my clients abandon W2003.

I doubt that table styles are the cause of your symptoms but just in case,
make sure that no font characteristics have been set in the table style (if
they have, set them back to the settings in normal or if, that doesn't work,
delete the table style and start over) and that you are using paragraph
styles to format the text in the tables.

HTH,
Pam

HelenaB wrote:
When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The table is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB


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  #9  
Old February 25th, 2010, 03:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

Yes, I found them there too.

Stefan Blom wrote:
For what it's worth, here is how I discovered char styles in Word 2007: In
the Find and Replace dialog box, click More, and then click Format, Style.
Take a look at the style listings in the dialog box. :-(


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  #10  
Old February 25th, 2010, 09:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
DeanH
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

Exactly, the only place where I found them too.
I use the following macro to remove them so they don't show up, even on the
F&R Styles listing.
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...p.htm#CharStyl

All the best
DeanH


"Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" wrote:

Yes, I found them there too.

Stefan Blom wrote:
For what it's worth, here is how I discovered char styles in Word 2007: In
the Find and Replace dialog box, click More, and then click Format, Style.
Take a look at the style listings in the dialog box. :-(


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