Opening and editing Word docs in Pages

Hi!
Whenever I write a document in Pages and export it as a Word document and then opens it again in Pages, maybe afer it have been edited in Word, the table of contents, for one thing, is changed. I noticed that when I open it as a Word document it now contains a lot more styles. For example Sub-heading and Sub-heading A. This is really annoying cause it messes up the document.
Can I change this in any way and get it to look like the Pages document I had before?
Thanks

Rune
Well I'm glad you have found a workaround. It's difficult for me to understand how your document was being messed up.
I thought you had Word. To clarify what I was talking about, Word deals with styles slightly differently to Pages. In Pages all the styles are associated with the document. When Word opens a document it adds a whole bunch of styles to what's already in there from what it calls document and global templates - this is the source of the extra styles that irritated you. These templates are associated with each user of Word.
The only other thing you could do is ask the people editing your document with Word to override Word's default behaviour of introducing styles from global templates. Many long time Word users that I know wouldn't understand what I was talking about

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