Suvidha Nagar, Jay Yogeshwar Road, Bhuravav, Godhra 389 001 Dist. Click File > Options > Advanced and select "Use Normal style for bulleted or numbered lists.Prasad Prakash Gavkar56 / Shivshakti Society, B/h. You'd still have to accept existing formatting changes already tracked in the document (for example by hiding all other changes and then accepting the changes shown).Īlso/alternatively, you can prevent the List Paragraph style from being applied automatically by Word. In a given document, you can turn off the tracking of formatting changes. When tracked changes have been activated, this will count as a format change. Of numbered sections was completely wrong throughout the document.Īre there any thoughts on how a style could be updated and completely mark up everywhere the style is applied?īy default, recent versions of Word apply the List Paragraph style to each paragraph where you apply number or bullet formatting.
When they do, she has to go through the entire document to make sure everything is the way it should be - on a past document the formatting Weird formatting changes keep happening to her (even on a new computer) on documents from 30-180 pages in length. Tried reproducing the issue with the original document she'd opened, could not reproduce except on the new document she created from the old one Made sure no keyboard shortcut to apply style was setup Checked automatically applied setting in style in case someone else editing has a different configuration What I can't figure out is how an entire Style could be randomly updated. I would expect Word to track a change in formatting, that's what we want it to do. It seems to have happened when the "Save as" was performed, but I can't be 100% sure. I cannot reproduce the issue either on her computer or mine on another document, however, only the one where the formatting marks came up. I was able to reproduce the issue by going to one of the bulleted points, going to the "List Paragraph" style's drop-down menu and selecting "Update List Paragraph to Match Selection." Now my name shows in every single instance where In the new document formatting changes appeared everywhere the "List She opened a document on a network drive that had been edited by many different people, made some edits and saved it as a new document. Youd still have to accept existing formatting changes already tracked in the document (for example by hiding all other changes and then accepting the changes shown). I am supporting someone who had this same issue. When tracked changes have been activated, this will count as a format change.
Viewing only the formatting changes should be helpful in the process, though. Unchanged, you'd have to do that manually of course. If you are saying that you want to reject some, accept some, and perhaps leave others Since the tracked formatting was something you didn't want, hiding everything but the formatting changes and then accepting (or perhaps rejecting) them should be helpful. On your formatting." Actually, you may want to clear all the options under "Apply as you type." When you are done, click OK twice. On the AutoFormat As You Type tab, clear "Built-in Heading styles" and "Define styles based In the Proofing category, click the AutoCorrect Options button. Click the File tab, and then click Options. This could be Word trying to be "helpful" with formatting.
Help!Īlso, when comparing the document I am editing to the original document I was sent from the author, I see that somehow a lot of the formatting has changed since I was working on the document on Friday.įor example, the title of the document in the original is "Cambria size 48," but in my working version the title has changed to "Cambria (Headline) size 48."Īny idea how this happened? Is there a keyboard shortcut that I hit accidentally? This is happening or if I did something to make it happen. Obviously, I could go through them individually and accept or reject them, but I'd rather avoid such a time-consuming task if possible.Īlso, now when I make any changes to text, such as changing a lowercase letter to a capital within a paragraph of text, I am getting a formatting change in the margin in addition to the change I suggested within the body of the paragraph. There are hundreds of these changes that I didn't make. The formatting made by the original author. If I reject the changes, for instance, the text loses These changes appear to be just the formatting that was already there in the original document, so I’m not sure where they are coming from. I saved the document Friday and returned to editing it on Monday morning to find all of these completely random formattingĬhanges (fonts, headings, italics, etc.) made to the document. I have run into a problem that I cannot seem to solve.
I am using Microsoft Word 2010 to edit a document using the track changes function.