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Hi Laura,

Interesting — I hadn’t encountered that since all the “frankenstyle” documents I have dealt with have gotten that way from being edited in previous versions of Word, so the style linking is gone.

I would think your documents would be fine as long as the triggers for creating the problem styles don’t occur — text formatted with the char style being edited in a previous Word version, or the issue with autotext in tables or used with the clipboard (which I can’t reproduce, no matter how hard I try). I did find that deleting the char style from the organizer will break the link, although I get an error message that it can’t be deleted, but when I check the task pane the linking is gone, and returning to the organizer the char style is no longer listed. So if it really bugs you to have them there, it looks like deleting the the char styles would do the trick.

I haven’t worked with VBA code on this issue, but check out Mesaka’s post in a similar thread, although you have probably already read it.

Christie

Hi Laura,

Interesting — I hadn’t encountered that since all the “frankenstyle” documents I have dealt with have gotten that way from being edited in previous versions of Word, so the style linking is gone.

I would think your documents would be fine as long as the triggers for creating the problem styles don’t occur — text formatted with the char style being edited in a previous Word version, or the issue with autotext in tables or used with the clipboard (which I can’t reproduce, no matter how hard I try). I did find that deleting the char style from the organizer will break the link, although I get an error message that it can’t be deleted, but when I check the task pane the linking is gone, and returning to the organizer the char style is no longer listed. So if it really bugs you to have them there, it looks like deleting the the char styles would do the trick.

I haven’t worked with VBA code on this issue, but check out Mesaka’s post in a similar thread, although you have probably already read it.

Christie

Hi Andrew,

I finally got a chance to test this some more, but I still don’t get the automatic compounding of styles. I tried it with the text in a table, making autotext entries, and cutting/copying with the clipboard. You and I are running the same version of Word, I am on Windows XP. I sure wish I could recreate this and see it for myself, sigh! Interesting about the table styles, too — I have not seen them automatically apply themselves. Was the client having all these problems running any custom templates and macros that may have triggered unusual behavior?

Christie

Hi Andrew,

I finally got a chance to test this some more, but I still don’t get the automatic compounding of styles. I tried it with the text in a table, making autotext entries, and cutting/copying with the clipboard. You and I are running the same version of Word, I am on Windows XP. I sure wish I could recreate this and see it for myself, sigh! Interesting about the table styles, too — I have not seen them automatically apply themselves. Was the client having all these problems running any custom templates and macros that may have triggered unusual behavior?

Christie

Hi Laura,

Thanks for that info and link — I wasn’t aware of the google forum, but that’s now added to my favorites for when I have to research the various and sundry Word problems that always find their way to me for resolution.

That is interesting about the service packs minimizing the problem, I wonder if that just prevents the styles from bugging out within 2002, as in the AutoText and Clipboard issue Andrew described. When I get a chance, I will re-test taking a 2002 document with linked styles into a lower version of Word for editing and return to 2002, since I have all the SPs and patches installed (can you say overzealous?).

Christie

Hi Laura,

Thanks for that info and link — I wasn’t aware of the google forum, but that’s now added to my favorites for when I have to research the various and sundry Word problems that always find their way to me for resolution.

That is interesting about the service packs minimizing the problem, I wonder if that just prevents the styles from bugging out within 2002, as in the AutoText and Clipboard issue Andrew described. When I get a chance, I will re-test taking a 2002 document with linked styles into a lower version of Word for editing and return to 2002, since I have all the SPs and patches installed (can you say overzealous?).

Christie

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the tips on reproducing the problem in 2002 only documents

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the tips on reproducing the problem in 2002 only documents

Just a thought — are you connected to an Exchange server? Could the duplicate set be the offline folders, which are an .ost file? If this is the case and the offline folders are are set to synchronize with the online folders, this would make sense. If you are working with POP accounts, I don’t know what’s going on — I use 2003 and have only one set of personal folders. Good luck, I hope you figure this out.

Just a thought — are you connected to an Exchange server? Could the duplicate set be the offline folders, which are an .ost file? If this is the case and the offline folders are are set to synchronize with the online folders, this would make sense. If you are working with POP accounts, I don’t know what’s going on — I use 2003 and have only one set of personal folders. Good luck, I hope you figure this out.

Interesting thread

Interesting thread

Hi Fred,

Here I was about to shut down but the LoungeAdmin alert came just under the bell . Just a few more notes:

The items on the Styles and Formatting task pane that show the tracked formatting are an interesting animal. They can be applied like styles, but they don

Hi Fred,

Here I was about to shut down but the LoungeAdmin alert came just under the bell . Just a few more notes:

The items on the Styles and Formatting task pane that show the tracked formatting are an interesting animal. They can be applied like styles, but they don

Regarding the disappearing text — I’ve seen this before in 2002, the text shows up if you print the document, but it is invisible on screen. Is that what was happening for you? The only “fix” I have found for this: Go to Tools/Options/Compatability and check the box for Balance SBCS characters and DBCS characters. This setting is supposedly not used in English Word, but I have seen it rectify the problem of disappearing on-screen text.