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Subject:RE: Preplexing MS Word Style Problem From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"'Caroline Anne Richardson'" <richardson -dot- caroline -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:06:18 -0500
Try this:
Use Find/Replace for all the styles used in your document. That is, search
for Body style, for example, and replace with Body style. I've found that
works sometimes with obstreperous documents.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caroline Anne Richardson
>
> However, I have noticed that every time I save and close this
> document, then
> re-open it, two of the styles (namely both Outline Heading
> styles) revert to
> an indent and tab stop I did not specify in the .dot file. I
> have repeatedly
> changed the style back to its original (in the document, not
> the template),
> with several options turned on or off, and get the same
> result each time I
> re-open the (re-saved) document.
>
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