[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Linda" wrote in message
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I just upgraded to Word (and Office) 2003 and this is driving me crazy.
When
I choose any type of formatting, it gets applied to the entire document
rather than just the text I have selected. This happens when I have not
selected any text at all, and when I have selected an entire paragraph. I
can usually avoid the problem if I select a small portion of text (without
the paragraph marker) before choosing the formatting.

For example, if I type a list, then select the item (paragraph) in the
list
and click "underline" OR press CONTROL-U, then the entire document becomes
underlined. Or, if I type a phrase, press return, and then click the
"Bullets" button in the tool bar, every paragraph in my document becomes
bulleted.

If I undo immediately, then the document looks the way I intended. From
this, I guessed that it had something to do with auto-formatting, and
turned
of every auto formatting feature I could find, but that didn't work.

I also searched various ways and read this article on
support.microsoft.com,
but it doesn't address the issue, nor does the fix they suggest apply.
Formatting Is Applied to the Whole Document Instead of to the Selected
Text
in Word(814085) - When you select text and then apply formatting to this
selection, the formatting may be applied to a larger portion of the
document
larger than the selected text, or it may even be applied to the whole
document. However, if you try to undo the...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814085/en-us

Anyone experienced this? It's causing me a lot of trouble, especially
with
large documents.
Linda