Styles Question "Joe McGuire" <mcguirejw[ at ]comcast.net> 25.09.2006 18:01:34 For the second time since I started this particular Word document (Word 2002/Win2000) the name of a style I created has been changed suddenly. This document contains questions and answers. I created a character style called Answer-Label as a sort of heading for the actual answer below it in a paragraph style called Answer. I have done this sort of thing for a long time. A few minutes ago I noticed that the paragraph style Answer has been changed to Answer Char. When the same thing happened last week I merely renamed the errant style. This time when I tried to rename it back to Answer I got an error message telling me that the style was already in use (I cannot see any Answer style, only Answer Char) or is reserved for a built-in style (The is not a built-in style; I created it). Any ideas? It may be coincidental but a little while back (30 minutes ago) my document seemed to become corrupted. No longer could Word Find (Ctrl+F) anything at all. Words typed right there on the page were evidently invisible to Find. Or maybe Find became blind. I did the usual thing of copyiing all but the last few blank paragraphs iinto a new document and resuming my labors, without apparent incident--until the unwanted Style change showed up.

Re: Styles Question "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" <robert.franz[ at ]mvps.org> 26.09.2006 07:22:36 Hi Joe Joe McGuire wrote: [Quoted Text] > For the second time since I started this particular Word document (Word > 2002/Win2000) the name of a style I created has been changed suddenly. This > document contains questions and answers. I created a character style > called Answer-Label as a sort of heading for the actual answer below it in a > paragraph style called Answer. I have done this sort of thing for a long > time. A few minutes ago I noticed that the paragraph style Answer has been > changed to Answer Char. When the same thing happened last week I merely > renamed the errant style. This time when I tried to rename it back to > Answer I got an error message telling me that the style was already in use > (I cannot see any Answer style, only Answer Char) or is reserved for a > built-in style (The is not a built-in style; I created it). Any ideas? How to apply a style in Microsoft Word (by Shauna Kelly) http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ApplyAStyle.html [See the "Tip for Word 2002 and 2003"] http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?query=char+style+word&catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=&qryWt=&mode=r&cus=False Styles with the ending " Char" have driven many Word 2002 users half crazy! Some considerations: 1. are you sure that "Answer-Label" is really a character style? 2. are you sure that you haven't applied "Answer" to only parts of a paragraph? [That sort of thing is usually at the base of the char char "bug".] 3. If your question is on a separate line, then is there a good reason not to use two paragraph styles? HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word