Checking "add to template'/ automatically update.

[mack]

GOAL: Change my document's font.
POSSIBLE PROBLEM: Macros are enabled: i.e. every time I open, an
'enable macros' box comes up first. (quite possibly irrelevant)
QUESTION: Do I check 'add to template'/'automatically update' in the
Format> style box when I change the font? (I would guess 'Yes', but was
told NOT to do this on another occasion, so I am showing due caution).
CURRENTLY: When I change the font, it reverts back to the original when
the document is closed.

OSX; Office 2004

Thank you.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks Mack, this is a very helpful format.

GOAL: Change my document's font.

Is the doc based on a custom template or on Normal? What style is the text
in the doc in, or mostly in?

POSSIBLE PROBLEM: Macros are enabled: i.e. every time I open, an
'enable macros' box comes up first. (quite possibly irrelevant)

Go to Tools>Macro>Macros. Is anything listed in the dialog that shows up?
Change the "Macros in" under the list to "DocumentName". Is anything listed
then?

QUESTION: Do I check 'add to template'/'automatically update' in the
Format> style box when I change the font? (I would guess 'Yes', but was
told NOT to do this on another occasion, so I am showing due caution).

Check "add to template," but do not check "automatically update." "Add to
template" means that the next doc you create based on that template will
also have the change. "automatically update" means that Word will
automatically assume any change to text in that style is a change you want
to make to the entire style. Resulting in: you select and bold one word
and the entire doc (everything in that style) goes bold.

CURRENTLY: When I change the font, it reverts back to the original when
the document is closed.

Hmm, tricky. Try this. Go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins. Make sure the
"automatically update document styles" box there is NOT checked. If that
box is checked, then every time you open the doc, it will go back to the
template it was originally based on and pull the style definitions from
there. Sometimes handy, usually exceedingly annoying and very bad.

 

[mack]

GOAL: Change my document's font.
RESPONSE: Goal achieved, thanks to Daiya's instructions!

Is the doc based on a custom template or on Normal? What style is the text
in the doc in, or mostly in?

RESPONSE: Not sure, think it's a custom template. Text is 'body text'
except for headers, which are 'Heading 1'

POSSIBLE PROBLEM: Macros are enabled: i.e. every time I open, an
'enable macros' box comes up first. (quite possibly irrelevant)

Go to Tools>Macro>Macros. Is anything listed in the dialog that shows up?
Change the "Macros in" under the list to "DocumentName". Is anything

listed
then?
RESPONSE: Yes. "Macro recorded 5\11\05 by me' I may well have done
this, but I don't know how AT ALL.

QUESTION: Do I check 'add to template'/'automatically update' in the
Format> style box when I change the font? (I would guess 'Yes', but was
told NOT to do this on another occasion, so I am showing due caution).

Check "add to template," but do not check "automatically update." "Add to
template" means that the next doc you create based on that template will
also have the change. "automatically update" means that Word will
automatically assume any change to text in that style is a change you want
to make to the entire style. Resulting in: you select and bold one word
and the entire doc (everything in that style) goes bold.
CURRENTLY: When I change the font, it reverts back to the original when
the document is closed.

RESPONSE: Did so.

Hmm, tricky. Try this. Go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins. Make sure the
"automatically update document styles" box there is NOT checked. If that
box is checked, then every time you open the doc, it will go back to the
template it was originally based on and pull the style definitions from
there. Sometimes handy, usually exceedingly annoying and very bad.

RESPONSE: It WAS checked, UNCHECKED IT.

Thank you once more, Daiya.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

listed
then?
RESPONSE: Yes. "Macro recorded 5\11\05 by me' I may well have done
this, but I don't know how AT ALL.

If you don't know why it's there, you can probably delete it, especially if
you named it that.

 

[mack]

Okay thanks, Daiya. Thanks again for the help.