Missing Styles

[Kelv]

I have Office XP.
I've created a document based on a template. The styles
from the template automatically get transferred to the
document which is how I want it.
When I open the document on my own computer, the styles
are all there.
However the document was opened on another computer and
the styles are missing.

Any ideas why this is happening ?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make sure you don't have "Automatically update styles" checked in the Tools
| Templates and Add-ins dialog. If you do that, then the document goes
looking for the template, which is not present on the other computer or,
worse still, *is* present with different style definitions.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Kelv]

This isn't ticked. I've also tried attaching the
Normal.dot template in Tools, Templates & Addins but this
makes no difference.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, they'll certainly be missing if you attach Normal.dot (assuming that's
not where you saved them).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Kelv

It may be worth thinking about three different things here.

First, as you know, when you create a document from a template, the document acquires all the template's styles.

Second, if you later attach another template, even if you tick the Automatically Update Document Styles, no styles will be deleted
from your document.

Third, Word distinguishes between what styles are in the document, and what styles Word chooses to show you. My guess is that the
styles are in your document, but that your friend can't see them.

Ask the friend to do the following: Format > Styles and Formatting. You'll see the Styles and Formatting task pane. Down the bottom
of that Task Pane, in the Show box, choose All Styles. It doesn't actually show you all the styles, but it will show you most of
them. If you really want to see all the styles, in that Show box, choose Custom and click the Styles button.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Kelv]

Hi Shauna

Thanks for the reply. I've asked my friend to do as you
suggested (i.e. go into Custom and select All Styles).
They haven't got any of the styles however. When I do it
with exactly the same document, the styles are displayed.
Any other ideas ?

-----Original Message-----
Hi Kelv

It may be worth thinking about three different things here.

First, as you know, when you create a document from a

template, the document acquires all the template's styles.

Second, if you later attach another template, even if you

tick the Automatically Update Document Styles, no styles
will be deleted

from your document.

Third, Word distinguishes between what styles are in the

document, and what styles Word chooses to show you. My
guess is that the

styles are in your document, but that your friend can't see them.

Ask the friend to do the following: Format > Styles and

Formatting. You'll see the Styles and Formatting task
pane. Down the bottom

of that Task Pane, in the Show box, choose All Styles. It

doesn't actually show you all the styles, but it will show
you most of

them. If you really want to see all the styles, in that

Show box, choose Custom and click the Styles button.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia


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[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Kelv

Assuming that the friend has Word 2002, and that the friend chooses Format > Styles and Formatting, and in that pane clicks Show and
then All Styles, what does the friend see in the Styles and Formatting pane? What is listed in the Styles and Formatting pane?

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Kelv]

Only the built in styles are listed (i.e. all the styles
you get in a blank Word doc).

-----Original Message-----
Hi Kelv

Assuming that the friend has Word 2002, and that the

friend chooses Format > Styles and Formatting, and in that
pane clicks Show and

then All Styles, what does the friend see in the Styles

and Formatting pane? What is listed in the Styles and
Formatting pane?

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Kelv

Sorry, I've never seen a case in which a document purports to contain some styles on one machine, but appears to lack those styles
when viewed on another machine. I don't think I can help further with this one.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless the "styles" were actually "formatting," and the recipient doesn't
have formatting displayed.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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all may benefit.

Hi Kelv

Sorry, I've never seen a case in which a document purports to contain some

styles on one machine, but appears to lack those styles