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Word 2000 - Styles Problems

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by drobinso

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Q: Why won't styles print?

Scenario: Document created in Word 97 using styles, now we are using in Word 2000. You can see the style on Print Preview, however, when you print the Title is there, but no contents below. It's almost like the styles are corrupted. If we redo each style on a page it will then print. However this documents is over 1000 pages and would be a major pain to restyle it all correctly. Is there a quicker fix out there?

Thank you.

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by dklippert

A couple of suggestions,
1) Go to Tools>Options and make sure that the Compatibility options are set to Word 2000

2) Change the Style then click in the Style box and hit Enter. Choose to update the Style.

3) put together a Template with the required styles and attach it.

"Attach a different template to the active document
On the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-Ins.

Click Attach, and then select the template you want.

Click Open.
Tip To use styles from the newly attached template, select the Automatically update document styles check box in the Templates and Add-Ins dialog box. Word adds the styles from the template to the document. If styles in the document and template have the same names, Word updates the document styles to match the template styles."

1000 pages is a lot for Word. Is it possible to break it up into "Chapters"?

by drobinso

This does not work. More info on problem, is there are approx 3 different styles used in this document. Some pages print fine, some only the Heading Style shows up and the rest of the page is blank. What I meant by over 1000 pages, is this is a manual, broken down into about 15 separate documents totalling over 1000. Very time consuming to find and replace each style. Sometimes there are three to four sections per page, each with three styles in it, 1) heading, 2) body text indentand 3) normal. It's almost as if the styles are corrupted. Any other suggestions would be appreciated, otherwise, it's manually searching and replacing each style for the entire document. Thanks for your suggestion.

by dklippert

If you need to replace the existing Styles, you can record a macro that will do the grunt work for you.
Have you tried copying the documents into a new doc (probably more trouble than using Edit-Replace)?
Good luck, I don't envy you. (Been there, hated it)

by documatrix

Use your What's This and click it on the paragraph that is 'hidden" and seek if the hidden attribute shows up on the list of formatting attributes being applied.

You can also go into format, font and see if hidden is being used. Many times, in order to get the header of a section to print on the same line of the text that follows, the paragraph mark has to be hidden to print on the same line. sometimes when highlighting, a user may accidently click the whole paragraph.

If you can see the text on the screen, but not when printed, then you have a print option checked that will not print out like printing hidden objects or only printing data on a form.

If you would like to send me the document to look at (since that always helps), you can send it to aevans@jw.com.

HOpe this helps you out.

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