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.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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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
    2016-01-20T15:10:10+00:00

    To the Microsoft Team, 

    Many of us have deployed the Microsoft Windows 10/Office 365/Word 2016 update just recently pushed out. The update at first seemed to work but now that more documents have been tested ..........It's doesn't totally fix the original "wonky" Styles issues/bug. 

    Back to the drawing board...........the update didn't fix the Styles problem. And there is still a "Read-Only" saving problem as well.

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  2. Stefan Blom 352K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-01-20T20:13:11+00:00

    Could you describe the problem you are seeing with the Styles pane now?

    For the read-only problem that you mention I suggest that you start a separate thread.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-20T21:49:48+00:00

    MS Office 365, Word 2016 .........All documents, templates etc. are affected ......I updated Office 365 and on 1/16/2016 a Windows 10 update was pushed out as well. 

    With the Styles pane Docked it seemed to work, but then had a problem applying a Style it became locked on that Style, went out >came back in> the problem still exists. The fix didn't fix the original bug, with the Styles pane Docked.......you pick a Style to format text, pick the Style, it jumps around or follows some unknown list, keep trying to apply the Style and it jumps to random Styles. Or in some documents lets say when working with Office 365 Online Word 2016 when you dock the Styles pane and try to apply the Style it locks up on the original formatted Style. . 

    We've only found that the best workaround was to use Ctrl/Shift/S....with the Apply Styles pane floating/undocked. But that is getting old and takes twice as much time manually scrolling through the list of Styles to apply a Style.

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  4. Stefan Blom 352K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-01-20T23:55:04+00:00

    I haven't seen it myself since I updated Office 2016 to 16.0.6366.2056 (but I still use Office 2013 a lot so I could have missed it). Would you mind confirming that you are running the same version of Office 2016 as I am? Click File | Options and then look at the version number listed under "Office Updates" (next to the Update Options button).

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