Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Troubleshooting

What to Do If Styles Suddenly Change When You Don't Expect Them To

Right-click on the style name in the Styles and Formatting task pane, click Modify Style, and see whether Automatically Update is turned on in the Modify Style dialog box. If it is, Word may have misinterpreted a manual formatting change as an instruction to change the style. Clear the check box.

If this doesn't solve the problem, did you change a style on which other styles are based? If so, those styles change as well, sometimes unexpectedly.

If your styles are still changing improperly, is a template that your document depends on missing? Assume that your document ...