Succor for Victims of Word’s Automatic Formatting
Tech writing forums regularly get hit with questions in the vein of “Word has corrupted my styles”. And the answers that come in are useful for some cases. Such as:
- Always “paste unformatted”.
- Deselect the option to Automatically Update Document Styles.
- Deselect the option to Define Styles Based on Your Formatting.
However, what to do when my files already have helter skelter formatting? For this very need we have included “fix styles” in our Author Max toolkit. Details here.
Be a victim of Word’s automatic formatting “features” no longer. Equip yourself with Author Max and fight back.
Katriel
September 25th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Making sure the Word document has as little number of styles as possible seems to work best. For up to 10 styles, any Word annoyance can be easily overcome.