Document mis-reads style from template

[Jack]

I have some user defined styles in my template. We'll call them "User
Heading" and "User Text".

Normal: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Regular
User Heading is Normal+Font:Tahoma, 10pt, Bold
User Text is User Heading+Not Bold

When I apply them within the template, they look fine.

When I open a document with Automatic update styles on and attached to the
template, the styles come in as follows:

Normal: Times New Roman, 12 pt, Regular
User Heading is Normal+Font:Tahoma, 12pt, Bold
User Text is User Heading

It is frustrating because I need the smaller size for space limitations.
Also the Text now looks identical to the headings, so there is no way to
distiguish them.

I have tried changing the User Heading font and size with no luck The font
will change, but the size remains 12 pt. I have reattached the template. I
have deleted the styles in the document and re-opened.

Any ideas on what is going on here or other things to try? User Heading is
related to another style using Numbering Formatting. I've had trouble working
with the Numbering formats in the past.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Jack,

Which version do you use?

I can't reproduce either the behaviour of the font size of "User heading"
nor the behaviour of "Not Bold" in "User Text", in Word2003.

The fist one still doesn't surprise me much.

Normal style used to be TNR 10 pt, as far as I remember, and those 10 pt
still linger in some of the code.
So what might happen in your version is that some of the code thinks Normal
style is still 10 pt, so if the style "User Heading" is based on Normal and
is also 10 pt, its font size doesn't need any change, so it inherits the
font size from Normal. I think I ran into something like that in older
versions (2000?).

If you use Word2002 or 2003, you could mail me the template and a sample doc
you are updating, and I'll see if I can reproduce the bugs.
My mail addy is (e-mail address removed)

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Jack]

Thanks for the response. I'm using Word 2002.

The styles were working fine. Then I made some modifications to the styles (
I can't remember all the specifics.) and everything went south.

I will contact you further at the provided address.