Styles in word 2016 not working properly

Anonymous
2015-12-28T04:19:27+00:00

Dear All,

I need help from you.

I cannot use Styles in Word 2016 properly, the problem is:

I want to use "Body Text", "Heading", "List Bullet", "List Number". When I click on "Body Text" but it jump to "TOC", it is not exactly "Body Text".

When I click on "Heading 1" it jump to "Heading 2" and next click jump to "Heading 3" and so on.

In previous version I always use these Styles but not faced these Problem.

After I change to this version I facing with this problem.

I use Microsoft Office Home and Business 2016.

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Anonymous
2016-01-14T19:53:46+00:00

Hi everyone!

The Office 2016 December update introduced an issue where the wrong style would get applied if you tried to select a style in the Styles pane.

That issue has been fixed in update 6366.2056, which is rolling out now to Office 365 consumer/small business subscribers. If you don't see the update yet, follow these steps:

  1. Open any Office application and choose File > Account. (If you're using Outlook, choose File > Office Account.)
  2. Under Product Information, choose Update Options > Update Now.

If you're still experiencing issues in 6366.2056, please let us know (best to start a new thread).

Thanks for your patience.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T20:21:12+00:00

    Follow-up: I have just discovered another glitch related to styles in Word 2016. I formatted a bibliography entry and then attempted to create a new style based on the current paragraph using the Create a Style dialog. When I tried to type the new name in the dialog, Word became unresponsive. I saved, closed Word, and reopened and tried again... several times. I was finally able to get my new style. Bizarre! And very inconvenient as I am revising my existing online lessons on Word to include Word 2016. It would be nice to know if these glitches will be fixed soon or if I need to include warnings and directions on how to handle such problems. New users will just give up!

    Jan Smith

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T19:00:02+00:00

    I checked "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" before creating this document. It's only five pages long but it has two (large) images embedded therein. It's about 77.5 MB in length. I also noticed it was forgetting the normal style indents. So no, hardware graphics acceleration is not a factor here.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T18:12:15+00:00

    But Microsoft has acknowledged that a bug exists in Word 2016. I have selected text, and apply the style I need, and it worked. I try it again, and it didn't work. For it to work again, I had to close the file, and then open it. I have been using styles since 2010, and never had any issues until now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T18:10:09+00:00

    Suzanne,

    Yes there is a benefit to having Styles Pane docked, which is different than "Apply Styles" pane ...........it was much faster to use the pane when docked, with the pane docked you can create a New Style whereas you can't when "Apply Styles" is floating.

    Also, there is a saving issue with this bug as well........Some documents at random when you edit them or copy into an existing document, when you open the doc to edit it opens as "Read-Only", which pops a window when you go to save it .......requiring renaming the doc and saving. MS is aware of this bug as well.

    This all happened with the major Windows 10 update that was pushed in early December around the 10th.

    This has been a problem for almost a Month, with the best programmers in the world Microsoft should have this fixed and push out a new update to fix these issues. These issues are hindering our productivity ........costing more to our clients in hours of extra work ............Maybe since we paid for a working Word 2016 we should BILL our lost hours to Microsoft? .....How would you like to be our client asking "Why is it now taking so much longer to format and edit our documents?"

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