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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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spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables
Text formatting is complicated within tables; see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "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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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. -- 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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spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables
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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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 |
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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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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 -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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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. :-( -- Stefan Blom 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 -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com . |
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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. :-( -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ables/201002/1 |
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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. :-( -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ables/201002/1 . |
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