Where is my MS Word program getting the template by which it decides the formatting of my headings?
Sometimes Heading 3 is brown. Sometimes it’s right-justified. Sometimes it’s 10-point. This is in spite of the fact that the headings in normal.dot are formatted just the way I like them (none of them brown, right-justified or in 10-point).
Sometimes after changing my headings, when I close the file it asks me if I want to save changes to the template Document Name.dot. Once I said “yes,” and now sometimes (but not every time) I close another file it says “Would you like to save changes to the template Document Name.dot” - if I say “yes” it won’t let me, because that document template is “still in use” even tho no other Word document is open. And the document that is apparently using “Document Name.dot” sure doesn’t have the same heading formats as the ones I saved in “Document Name.dot.”
The complication is that I am opening (and labelling headings in) documents which I did not create. But I know for a fact that none of my colleagues (the documents’ authors) make their headings right-justified (etc).
This is driving me bonkers. I know how to work around it but I’d really rather not have to deal with it in the first place. What do I need to do (short of setting up identical headings individually on everybody’s computer) to get consistent heading formats, across documents, in Word? I have 40 of these to do, so that thing that requires me to ([open a drop-down menu and then a dialog box and then another dialog box and then click a tab and then a button and then another tab and then another button and then “apply”] x [number of documents]) - will not suit my purposes. I feel there should be an easier way to do it.
(For bonus points: Why does it sometimes call normal text “normal,” and sometimes “E-text,” and sometimes “body text,” and sometimes “strong”? All of the documents were created on Word and I also know that my colleagues are not labelling their alternating paragraphs as “E-text” and “body text.”
Thanks!