Fortune 100 Company experiencing serious problems with Word Templates

[Keith Brickey]

We are having great difficulty with spurious changes to heading styles,
using Word 2002 (10.5522.4219) SP-2, running under WindowsXP Pro. The
problems occur in three categories:

1 - For no apparant reason, numbering format and indentation changes occur
to document headings and to the defining template styles.

2 - A different but equally bothersome trouble is the addition of new styles
with 'Char ' appended to the name of another style. If I delete these
unwanted styles, all of the paragraphs which were using the deleted style
revert to 'normal.

3. Another problem is that when a paragraph preceding a heading paragraphe
is deleted, the heading paragraph loses its style.

Are there bug fixes or workarounds to these very serious and inconvenient
problems. Would they be cured by upgrading to Office 2003? I hope someone
will take this seriously, because I have a large group of people in a
fortune 100 company sharing work on the same set of documents and these
problems are causing a huge amount of frustration and wasted time.

Sincerely,

Keith Brickey

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Keith,

See the information on fellow MVP Shauna Kellys website at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/index.html

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Keith Brickey]

Thanks Doug

Hi Keith,

See the information on fellow MVP Shauna Kellys website at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/index.html

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP