Paragraph Styles adding Char at the end of name

[Summer]

Word 2002, Windows XP

It seems that if you have a paragraph style and apply it
to a character it adds a new style with Char after it.
Thus changing the style and redering it useless in a TOC
unless you add all the new unwanted styles.

Help!! how do I make it stop.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

HI Summer,

See
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...&selm=OY%24iaF5ICHA.2488%40tkmsftngp09&rnum=2

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Fiona]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the reference to much earlier discussions on the subject.
It's clear that this has been a common problem for MS Word users for
some time.

The advice of installing SP1 (and SP2) hasn't fixed the issue for me.

Earlier postings suggest that the format painter may be a cause of
'char' problems. If the painter has been used extensively throughout
documents, is there any simple way of reversing this damage?

Resigned to the problem but still keen to find a solution,

Fiona

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Fiona,

The advice of installing SP1 (and SP2) hasn't fixed the issue for me.

The SPs only suppress display of the Char formats in the Task Pane (as
long as the document hasn't been opened in an earlier version or saved
in an earlier version format). It does NOT keep Word from creating
these character styles.

Earlier postings suggest that the format painter may be a cause of
'char' problems. If the painter has been used extensively throughout
documents, is there any simple way of reversing this damage?

If you can open the file in Word 2000 or 97, or at least save in Word
6/95 *.doc format, then you'll see the Char styles in the task pane.
You can then click the little arrow next to the entry and use "Select
all n instances" to pick these up and "Clear formatting" or apply your
own character style. Afterwards, you should be able to delete the
"Char" styles (with the exception of anything linked to Heading styles
1 through 3).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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