[Terry Farrell]

All styles have a 'Style for following paragraph' setting. Have you checked
to make sure that it hasn't inadvertently set itself to follow with Heading
3 Style? Also, are you ending you Heading 3 with a paragraph return and not
a line feed?

Are you using the DocMap?

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

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Using Word 2002 in XP professional.

Suddenly I am having trouble changing the style assigned to a line or
text:
Following a line formatted as "Heading 3", when I press "enter" to start a
new line, the new line is still formatted as Heading 3! Every attempt I
make to change it to "normal" fails.

If I type some text into the new line, it is formatted as a "heading 3"
and
if I select this text and try to change it to "normal" it will not change.

How do I get out of this dilemma? I closed the document and reopened it
but
the problem remains. It is a very long document if that is a factor.

Jeff