Troubleshooting
What to Do If Styles Suddenly Change When You Don't Expect Them To
Check in Format, Style, New Style to see whether Automatically Update is turned on for that style. If it is, Word may have misinterpreted a manual formatting change as an instruction to change the style. Clear the check box.
If this doesn't solve the problem, did you change a style on which other styles are based? If so, those styles change as well, sometimes unexpectedly.
If your styles are still changing improperly, is a template that your document depends upon missing? Assume your document uses a template stored on a network drive. If you open a Word document while the server is temporarily unavailable, Word may use styles with the same name from the Normal template ...
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