When you change paragraph or font format settings, the settings are retained
for text you subsequently create following the existing text. That is, if
you change paragraph format and press Enter, the new paragraph you create
will have the same settings as the previous one, and this will continue
until you change again. But if you want to apply formatting changes to
existing text, you must select it first. Much the best way to apply
formatting to paragraphs is with paragraph styles.

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"jets007" wrote in message
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When setting the paragraph settings in Word, does it keep the settings or
does it default to another?