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I added the .pdf maker template to my templates folder containing my WORD templates.

I added the .pdf maker template to my templates folder containing my WORD templates.

Got the answer. Thanks to all who might have tried to help.

Got the answer. Thanks to all who might have tried to help.

You cannot expunge the behaviour. But you can fix it by simply creating a new bullet style with the same characteristics but a different indent level. You have to select the bullets anyway to move them in, now you just change the style from the styles drop-down menu. Just remember to include the new style in your template.

You cannot expunge the behaviour. But you can fix it by simply creating a new bullet style with the same characteristics but a different indent level. You have to select the bullets anyway to move them in, now you just change the style from the styles drop-down menu. Just remember to include the new style in your template.

We had this problem as well. We solved it by choosing NO when WORD asks you to update the template with the changes you made. The “chars” still show up in the organizer, but they do NOT show up in the styles drop-down menu.

We formulated this policy: Create a template with NO chars in it. Distribute the template with all the updating options unchecked. Instruct the writers to NEVER update the template when asked by WORD. So far, this has allowed us to keep the chars out of the styles menu.

On another note: The person creating these templates would love to know how to make the macros mentioned in this thread to work. He cut and pasted them into the Macro editor and saved them, but they come back with syntax errors when he tries to run them.

Just set up acrobat to read the links in the TOC that are generated by word. Change the word file, regenerate it, run Adobe, then repost the pdf on the web.

That is the way we do it here…

Or at least the way we USED to do it until we got windows xp professional/office xp professional. Now we can’t produce pdf’s at all.

These PC’s are coming from our IS department…Right now, the guy has tried to install acrobat, cannot get the icon to show in WORD XP, cannot get the Acrobat menu addition, and cannot print pdf’s at all. He installed Acrobat 4, then updated with the 5 update disk, then went to adobe and got the 5.01 patch and downloaded that…but still no dice.

Thanks. I really wish the search feature here was easier to use…

This is a document that contains both the old and the new. I have set in Tools, field shading is set to always on…The fields in the bulleted list print shaded, the last one does not.
Anyway here is the sample.

When I look at the old cross-references (done before I updated Office) the *MERGEFORMAT key is included with the field code. The fields that contain this key are shaded when I print. If I apply shading to a new cross-reference, the MERGEFORMAT key is there when I look at the field code. Clicking inside the field code and applying the MERGEFORMAT key manually does not work. BEFORE I did the update, the MERGEFORMAT key was applied automatically when I did a cross-reference, and the shading carried over to the printed and .pdf documents.

The NEW cross-references look like this: REF _Ref10863265 h
The OLD cross-references look like this: REF _Ref2320141 h * MERGEFORMAT

I have been on WIN2K and WORD2K the entire time.

The strangest part about this is, of course, that the OLD cross-references retained their shading. One would think that WORD would have changed them to match the ones I create now…but noooooo, WORD has to taunt me with the difference!

Isn’t there a way, through styles, to apply the MERGEFORMAT key so that the shading would carry over? I looked in styles and in word help but nothing was there that made any sense (of course!).
Any further input?

WORD 2000, MS 2000 operating system.
Inserted Cross-references by using Insert/cross-references. The text (headings or numbered lists) are not shaded. I updated Win2k, and this problem appeared right after. Tools/Options/View/Field Shading to always is how it is set in WORD, and I know that does not carry over to printing…but I had an option set SOMEWHERE that enabled the shading to carry over to the printed document, be it PDF or paper. This option was somehow reversed when I updated Win 2k.

Yah, that is a given. I did the update, but it still does not work. MS says that adding the SR1 patch helps, but that did not solve the issue either.

Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueller?

HELP!!!