Publisher 2007 won't save styles

[lindalouk]

Publisher 2007 is not saving styles. I had a document printed, and many of the headings had the wrong font. I went back to my document and changed the font back to what it HAD been, the appropriate font (Calibri). It looked like the changes took. I saved the doc, and when I reopened it, the changes were gone, and every heading style I had changed had reverted to the incorrect font (Garamond). Meanwhile, application of different master pages to a page were saved. What is going on?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Makonz]

Hi lindalouk

I have a couple of questions to try and work out what may be going wrong, ( short of a file corruption ), to ascertain if I am able to assist.
Firstly - how are you changing the font from the incorrect font to the correct one ? i.e. what action do you do ?

Secondly, are you using a standard Publisher font scheme, ( normally found in the Format Publication task pane on the Left hand side of the screen ), such as 'Modern' or 'Etched' perhaps ? Are you using only one font scheme in the publication ?

If you let me know the answers to these questions I will try and work out what is happening with this publication.

Regards

Makonz

 

[lindalouk]

I go to styles in the task menu, select the style to modify it, then in the modification pane i change Garamond to Calibri. It looks fine, then I close, and when I reopen, it is back to Garamond. It did this with several different styles. I have several iterations of this doc, and this is the only one where it changed. I have it on two different computers, and regardless of which one I use to modify it, it goes back to Garamond.

I am thinking that if I can't get it to work, I will try creating new styles, but I'd like to know why this happened because it seems it could easily happen again.
Thank you for your help.

 

[Makonz]

Hi Lindalouk

Going off what you say is happening I have tried to replicate this to see what the problem is but I'm not able to duplicate the issue you are getting. You say you have several iterations and I presume the other versions do not behave like this, and then because this publication is doing the same thing on two different computers it is starting to point to the possibility that something has corrupted in this version only.

The only things that I could suggest that you check is that you are not trying to use styles from two different 'font schemes' in one publication, which I think you are not but without seeing the whole document I am just ruling out anything I can think of.
There is one other thing that you could try and that is to look at the 'Font scheme options' under the Font Schemes tab.
When you click the text link a dialog box will appear and you could try checking or unchecking the 'Override applied text formatting' option to the opposite of what it is set on currently. As I said I was unable to duplicate your issue so cant test myself if this will resolve the problem.

Sorry I cant be more definitive on this one but best of luck with resolving your issue.

Regards

Makonz

 

[lindalouk]

Thanks for trying. I didn't use any Font Schemes. I guess I will create new styles and see if that works. I posted this to Microsoft's Answers forum and haven't gotten a single reply. It's too bad. It used to be very, very helpful for all sorts of problems (back before it was "Answers," but now it is pretty useless.