Publisher paragraph styles change when adding new chapters to a book or synchronising

[LindaRushby]

I am trying to create a book of multiple chapters using Publisher version 2.6.

I have created the chapters as separate documents, but when I synchronise with the book, some of the paragraph styles get overwritten, for example my chapter title which I set to Palatino Linotype 18 point becomes Arial 75pt, and Section Header which should be Palatino linotype 30pt centred, becomes  arial 83.3pt with left, right, top and bottom indents of 62.5mm.

Can anyone give me a clue what's going on and what I can do about it (other than correcting all 21 chapters to the right styles individually and not synchronising, or putting them together in one huge document)?

 

[MikeTO]

It's important to finalize text styles and master pages before creating additional chapters. The normal issue that users experience is that they define a style one way and several chapters later change its definition and sync the changes but end up with duplicate styles in the other chapters rather than updated styles.

I haven't heard of a case like yours. Using the chapter title style as an example, what font was it defined as in the style source chapter and in one of the other chapters before syncing? Were they both set to Palatino 18? Were there any other differences between the styles?

If you can't figure it out, could you please do this?

1. Create a new document. Choose Import Styles from the Text Styles panel menu and select your style source chapter. Save this document as source.afpub.
2. Create another new document. Choose Import Styles from the Text Styles panel menu and select one of the other chapters that was messed up after synching styles. Save this document as target.afpub.
3. Upload those two files in a reply here. That will give us your style definitions without having to share the contents of your book and allow for easy testing.

Cheers