Learn and use styles. They are at the heart of formatting in Word.
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sOnStyles.html
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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Wow! That changed the entire document. Now the surrounding text
matches the merged font style and size. How bizarre. Thank you for
the tip. Now I just need to figure out how to turn off the auto-style
format piece. Or get the styles set up correctly for this document.

This is my first real gig as a tech writer, so I have not used styles
very much.

Thanks again for your help!

Lisa