Formatting different between two computers...

[Derrick Krakau]

I have two users in my office. They have identical computers physically.
There are some differences between the normal.dot files though. When one
opens a document that the other created it looks drastically different.

I have read the "its the printer" concept, but it doesn't do it for
everything. They are using styles to do most of the formating. One example
of what happend was a block quote section on one document did not appear
indented when opened on the others computer.

Thanks much,

Derrick Krakau
Systems Admin
FF&SJ

 

[Derrick Krakau]

I want to add that the version of office in this case is Office XP Service
Pack 3

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The appearance of the document should not be affected by Normal.dot or any
other attached template unless the template/document is set to
"Automatically update document styles." See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/templaterelations/index.html and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/WillMyFormatChange.html

 

[Bear]

Please read this:

http://shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/WillMyFormatChange.html

I suspect the Automatically Update Document Styles check box is checked.

Bear

 

[Derrick Krakau]

I have checked both computers and the Update Document Styles check box is
NOT checked on either computer.

I still think it has something to do with styles but I am not seeing the
possible causes. Any other suggestions?

Thanks so far,
Derrick

 

[Bear]

Derrick:

The only other wrinkle I can think of has to do ONLY with the bulleted or
numbered lists, where the appearance of lists on machine B may depend on how
user B has edited his gallery settings (the individual panes in the Format >
Bullets and Numbering dialog box) during the current session.

There are few other possibilities when it comes to style problems. The
definition of a style really is preserved in a document if that Automatically
Update Document Styles check box is cleared.

To utterly eliminate the possibility of the Normal.dot file causing
conflicts, why not experiment by saving user B's Normal.dot (say as
Normal.bak) and copying user A's Normal.dot onto user B's machine. Open the
document and see if the same differences appear or not.

Bear