Changes are not keps

[forums55]

I have a file that will not save a couple of things to it. I'm changing the
font in one paragraph from 16p to 12pt. I make the change I click save and
close out of the file. I reopen the file and the font for that paragraph is
still at 16. Don't get it -- never seen this before. Also wont remember to
keep the file in center of the screen.


Kevs

OS 10.6.2
INTEL imac
Office 2004

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Kevs:

That's pretty diagnostic. There are two conditions that could be affecting
this.

The first could be that the file is corrupt, or "read-only". If it is
corrupt, one or more paragraphs can go read-only. In which case you should
Maggie the file.

How are you opening it? If the file is marked as Stationery, when you open
it, you are making a copy of it: watch the file name closely when you are
saving it to see if this is the case.

However, I seem to remember that your file is not being "remembered" in the
middle of the screen, it is being "moved" into the middle of the screen. By
a macro.

Which indicates that the macro is not firing for that file.

Which indicates that the template attached to that file is not Normal
template, it's something else. Because your macro is in Normal.

In which case, the document is probably set to "Automatically update styles
on open". And if it is, your styles will be overwritten by the styles in
the template each time you open the document.

Use Tools>Templates and Add-ins>Attach... To check if this is the case.

Cheers

I have a file that will not save a couple of things to it. I'm changing the
font in one paragraph from 16p to 12pt. I make the change I click save and
close out of the file. I reopen the file and the font for that paragraph is
still at 16. Don't get it -- never seen this before. Also wont remember to
keep the file in center of the screen.


Kevs

OS 10.6.2
INTEL imac
Office 2004

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[forums55]

Hi Kevs:

That's pretty diagnostic. There are two conditions that could be affecting
this.

The first could be that the file is corrupt, or "read-only". If it is
corrupt, one or more paragraphs can go read-only. In which case you should
Maggie the file.

How are you opening it? If the file is marked as Stationery, when you open
it, you are making a copy of it: watch the file name closely when you are
saving it to see if this is the case.

However, I seem to remember that your file is not being "remembered" in the
middle of the screen, it is being "moved" into the middle of the screen. By
a macro.

Which indicates that the macro is not firing for that file.

Which indicates that the template attached to that file is not Normal
template, it's something else. Because your macro is in Normal.

In which case, the document is probably set to "Automatically update styles
on open". And if it is, your styles will be overwritten by the styles in
the template each time you open the document.

Use Tools>Templates and Add-ins>Attach... To check if this is the case.

Cheers



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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

John it was an .rtf
I probably made an .rtf years ago becuase wanted to get rid of some macro
issues -- saved it today as word doc and seems ok now.


Kevs

OS 10.6.2
INTEL imac
Office 2004

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Kevs:

You have not found the problem yet

If your macro is stored correctly in your Normal template, it will work for
RTF files also (which are not "Documents" in the strict sense of the
word...)

However, an RTF file can be attached to a different template, as can a
document, and that's probably what happened.

I suggest that you set your Mac up to always add extensions to the file
names, and to always show them to you, so that you can see immediately what
is going on.

Windows doesn't care abut file extensions these days, but Mac OS X does:
it's Unix, and the file extension tells the system and the application what
kind of data is in the file. If the extension is wrong, the result may also
be wrong.

Cheers

John it was an .rtf
I probably made an .rtf years ago becuase wanted to get rid of some macro
issues -- saved it today as word doc and seems ok now.


Kevs

OS 10.6.2
INTEL imac
Office 2004

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

--

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]