template problems

[Lorrae]

How do I permanently get rid of unwanted styles from my
customised template? Word keeps adding styles by taking a
style name of mine and adding 'Char' to the name. Now if
I go into Styles and Formatting to delete or change it,
the application freezes. The formatting of this unwanted
style has attached itself to one of my other unrelated
styles (used in a table) and I can't get my table style
to go back to its previous format. HELP!

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Lorrae

The following things may help:

* Make sure you have applied the latest updates - there was a bug in Word
2002 first release that caused ever-appending char chars

* Turn off the Edit option to 'Keep track of formatting', apart from when
you actually need to see the information it provides in the styles and
formatting pane.

* Avoid using a paragraph style as a character style (this can happen
accidentally if you have part of a paragraph selected when you attempt to
apply a para style).

* To remove the char styles, see

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MyFavTip.htm#CharStyl

I would be worried by the 'cross-talk' between styles and by the application
freezing - sounds like a document corruption is on the way, and this could
be a good moment to build a clean template.

 

[Lorrae]

Thankyou Margaret. It may be early days but I think your
suggestions have helped, especially the switching off of
the Edit option, Keep Track of Formatting. Much
appreciated.