atw: Re: Word Happens: Normal font size

Sam,

Couple of things you could try:
Instead of applying the normal template through the gallery, attach the
template through Tools/Templates and add-ins. Tick the box for
'Automatically update styles'

Another explanation might be that in the document you're applying the
template to, the style Normal's type size might have been modified (say
from 10 pt to 12). When you apply the new Normal style, Word recognises
that the font is different but preserves the size modification.

Hope this is useful
Bede 

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Hi All

Firstly, apologies in advance if any of this is incoherent - I am
completely stumped and a teensy bit frustrated.

I was out at a client site this morning and struck a weird thing in Word
2003.

I was setting up a nice new Normal.dot for the client to use and it
worked
as it should when creating new documents.

However, when we applied the Normal.dot to existing documents (via Style
Gallery), the Normal font pt size will not apply to the existing Normal
style. The Normal style font type changes from TNR to Tahoma, but it
stays
at 12 pt. When we check what pt size Normal style is (Style pane >
Normal >
Modify), it is 10 pt! If we manually apply Normal style, the proper font
size is applied.

Also, in the Styles pane, when I select a style it says "Not currently
used" when it *is* in use so we can't just perform an easy Style Pane >
Select all instances update.

I blew away and re-created Normal.dot but since that didn't fix the
problem, it leads me to believe there is something odd going on with the
original docs. Any clues as to where I should be looking?

Cheers, Sam

sam schuman
technical writer
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