Project 2010 - Automatic scheduling or manually changing end date on summary task wipes out gantt formatting

Hello,
Below is a before and after screenshot if I do any of the following:
1. Turn on automatic schedulilng
2. Manually set the end date of the summary task to beyond any of the below tasks end dates.
Any help would be great.
It uploaded after so before is last pic and after is first below.

Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the reply. For the purpose of the screenshots I didn't demonstrate automatic scheduling. I did however turn it on at the application level (settings), summary task level and individual task level. Either immediately or after
a calculate it would ultimately remove the custom formatting either accross the board (If all tasks were set to automatic) or just to the point where the summary task end date is set.
To your second point. I don't have a huge amount of experience with bar styles but if we use ms word as an example are bar styles not the equivalent of a font? With customizations like I've made (you stated above 'individually formatted') something
like bold or italics for example? I need to do specific customizations for the stakeholders I will be presenting this to (ie: blue means this, red means that) on a bar by bar level. That would be weird if ms didn't allow for that no?
It would be amazing if someone could put together a test. Create 1 summary task, 2 sub level tasks, set the dates (with both manual and automatic), format the bars with a change (red or whatever) and then see if changing the summary task end date removes
the formatting on the sub level tasks in the gantt. I know its a long shot but if someone is bored i'd send them some karma.
Thank you both for taking a crack at helping.
Todd

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