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
    2016-01-15T15:37:43+00:00

    The issue isn't fully fixed. Although it does correctly select the new style now, the actual style selector doesn't update to reflect the new style. In other words, until you click off of the selected text and then click back on it it again, the highlighted style in the style selector does not match the one that is actually applied to the selected text.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-15T14:16:29+00:00

    Thanks :) it's working correctly now.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-15T01:18:42+00:00

    Hi Anneliese [MSFT],

    After I update to the latest update this morning, the Styles Panel issues was solve.

    Thank you very much.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-15T00:42:19+00:00

    The new update seems to have fixed the Style pane issue that I had - applying a style different from the one that I clicked on. Thanks to all who reported this as an issue and to the programmers who fixed it!

    Jan Smith

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