Word Styles

Hi,

We have been using a template company wide which was created in Word 2003. However we have been finding that our teams are struggling to use this template as the styles are not locked down, and all sorts of "illegal" styles end up being used. Now we are using Word 2010 we are also finding all sorts of small issues to do with heading numbering and internal document links, which we are putting down to minor 2003-2010 incompatibility issues as we haven't had problems with this before.

Following a Word Intermediate course you ran for us we have decided to rebuild the template in 2010 and lock down the styles to just the ones we need. We have the following questions though:

1. How do you create styles so that they can be applied to just parts of paragraphs or individual characters? We want to lock down our "normal" style so it is always arial font 10 with set spacing, however when we restrict this we loose the ability to make normal text bold, italic, superscript, subscript etc. To get round this we have created styles for each of these, but we can only apply these to entire paragraphs not to individual characters.

2. How do you create a style with text highlighting? When we try it just looks like normal text with no highlighting, even when we make the text look like we want it to and click "update 'xxxx' to match selection"

3. How do you lock the template so that when text from an external source is copied in it is forced to match the "normal" text style (unless the applied text style in the source document exists in the target document already). Your instructor did show us, and we got it to work, but now we can't get it to work again so think we must have missed out a step.

I have the template we have created so far which I can send across to you if that would help.
Thanks