Heading Styles Refuse to Accept Before and After Settings

[jason.lathrop]

I am using Word X for Mac on a PowerBook G4, 1.33, 10.3.9.

I have modified the Heading styles to conform to our preferred
settings. When I import these styles using the organizer into a new
document, the Heading styles (1,2,3...) retain the typeface, size, and
indentation settings.

However, the before and after paragraph spacing is switched to "auto"
against my will?

Here is the weird thing. When I pull down up the Styles dialog and look
at the text string describing all the settings, it says "auto." When I
select the modify, paragaph dialog, it retains my before and after
specification (18 and 6 pt).

When I attempt to manually force the change using the formatting
palette, the palette also shows my settings in place.

However, the text itself is auto spaced when I look at it, i.e. wrong.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

It's a corrupt document. Maggie it...

1) Create a new blank document

2) Carefully copy all except the last paragraph mark

3) Paste into the new document

4) Save as a new file name.

That's known as "doing a Maggie" and it should fix it.

Cheers

I am using Word X for Mac on a PowerBook G4, 1.33, 10.3.9.

I have modified the Heading styles to conform to our preferred
settings. When I import these styles using the organizer into a new
document, the Heading styles (1,2,3...) retain the typeface, size, and
indentation settings.

However, the before and after paragraph spacing is switched to "auto"
against my will?

Here is the weird thing. When I pull down up the Styles dialog and look
at the text string describing all the settings, it says "auto." When I
select the modify, paragaph dialog, it retains my before and after
specification (18 and 6 pt).

When I attempt to manually force the change using the formatting
palette, the palette also shows my settings in place.

However, the text itself is auto spaced when I look at it, i.e. wrong.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

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