Go to Format | Style for the heading style and change the "Style for
following paragraph" from Normal to Body Text.

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"Thomas Campitelli" wrote in message
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Thank you all again for your help. I did a find and replace to remove
all instances of "Normal." However, when I hit a carriage return after a
heading, it is back to Normal again. I am assuming the that the find and
replace should have changed the default empty paragraph.

I'd like to see Microsfot implement this feature at some point. Perhaps
I will express my views to them. The next verison of Office is something
like 1.5 years away. I bet they could get it in there by then.

Thomas Campitelli

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
To add to what Jean-Guy has said, you can accomplish the same thing in a
specific template that you can in Normal.dot: that is, you can format
the
default empty paragraph as Body Text. But you'll still run into Normal
in
some instances. For example, labels (created using the Tools | Envelopes
and
Labels command) and text boxes default to Normal style.