Here's a suggestion to try. Hope it helps.

Fonts or other formatting/attributes changing for no apparent reason to
match another part of a document is often a Styles issue. Of course, every
point in a Word document is subject to a style, even if it is a default
style like "Normal" or "Header." If somehow you are using the same style in
both places Word would assume you meant for the attributes like font size,
justification etc. to be the same; change one and the other location is
changed to match it. If the styles are not the same, check to see if they
are Based On each other or on some other style they have in common. I
usually leave the Automatically Update unchecked since I don't really know
what it means (leaving it unchecked should update the various attributes
wherever this style appears in your document anyway). Things get a bit
weird if you add the same attributes along with a style, such as Format,
Font or Format, Paragraph. Then you get these parts of Word to go to war
with each other.


"Connie Martin" wrote in message
...
Word can do some fierce and wonderful things! I suppose there's a reason
for
it all, but this one I can't figure out. I have text in a header, right
aligned, font size 8. I closed the header and typed text at the top of
the
page, right aligned, and font size 14. The header font changed to 14 as
well. If I move the text to left-aligned, the header moves to left, as
well.
What gives???

Connie Martin