[emel]

I'm organizing a bunch of text that I pasted into a document by adding
headers to separate the topics. The heading text is already there as body
text; I just want to promote it. But, it doesn't quite work ...

The details. The body text is 12 point Times New Roman. Heading 3 is Bold,
12 point Arial. I separate the bit that I want to promote into its own
paragraph and hit alt-shift-left, which nicely promotes it. Unfortunately,
it promotes it to Heading 3 + Times New Roman. (Note, heading 3 is the
prevailing heading level at this point in the document). I really want plain
old Heading 3 the way I defined it.

Ctl-Alt-3 promotes the Body Text to an unadulterated Heading 3.

OK, I can try to remember to use Ctl-Alt-3 instead, but it's possible that
there is some obscure option hidden away somewhere that will make it behave
the way I'd prefer. Plus, I can't quite puzzle out why someone would make
alt-shift-left behave that way on purpose.

Oh - Word 2003 on Windows XP.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
Ed