Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!galaxy!leo From: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: MS Word: Losing italics when changing styles Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 09:41:38 GMT Article-I.D.: galaxy.leo.671276498 Sender: news@dutrun.UUCP Reply-To: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl Lines: 34 I am having a problem with MS Word 4.0 that is driving me totally *nuts*. I hope that somebody can help me - the manual doesn't. I have a style, called 'Reference'. The *only* way in which it differs from my 'Normal' style is in that it changes some ruler stuff (indentation and right margin to be precise). Now I do not write my references in Word itself: I import them, formatted and all (i.e. with titles in italics etc.) from the program EndNote. This works perfectly, except that usually the text gets pasted in 'Normal' style. So I want to change styles to 'Reference', and this is where it all goes wrong: for a number of the 'Normal' paragraphs, MS Word will lose *all* font style information when changing the paragraph style to 'Reference'. What is making me go crazy is that I have not the faintest idea about *what* the criterion is for this to happen. 95 % of the paragraphs reformat correctly. The other 5 % don't. I have no clue as to why. Sometimes if you insert e.g. seven random plain characters after the second '^n' in such a paragraph, then the reformat will work. In this it behaves consequently - insert 1 to 6 characters and reformatting causes plain text, insert 7, and it always works OK. But that doesn't work for all the paragraphs in the 5 %, and I really am on the verge of a major nervous breakdown here. Can anybody *please* explain what is happening to me? I don't even want to know a solution, I just want to know why it is happening! Thanks... -- Leo Breebaart (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)