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Word is driving me crazy!
I have Word 2003 and I'm trying to write a big document. Whenever I bold a
word or a sentence it changes the WHOLE document and takes a loooooong time to process it because it is many pages long. I've tried to find what setting is causing this - I can't find it. It really is very time consuming and I've given up trying to format as I type because it changes the whole thing time and time again. Why is it doing this???? I would be eternally grateful if someone knows the fix for this please - also, if you respond via the group, can you please also email me direct in case I don't come back here again for a week or so. I'm trying a few places to find an answer. Regards, and thanks, Kathie |
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Word is driving me crazy!
Usual reason for this is having your Normal style set to "Automatically
Update" - see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tedcontent.htm -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "kathiemt" wrote in message ... I have Word 2003 and I'm trying to write a big document. Whenever I bold a word or a sentence it changes the WHOLE document and takes a loooooong time to process it because it is many pages long. I've tried to find what setting is causing this - I can't find it. It really is very time consuming and I've given up trying to format as I type because it changes the whole thing time and time again. Why is it doing this???? I would be eternally grateful if someone knows the fix for this please - also, if you respond via the group, can you please also email me direct in case I don't come back here again for a week or so. I'm trying a few places to find an answer. Regards, and thanks, Kathie |
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Word is driving me crazy!
Well, how simple was that? And yet I looked everywhere I could (in the
regular menus) and couldn't find anything at all. What confuses me is why it started doing that? Did I inadvertently made a change to a normal document that made it start doing that for every document? Because my documents used to behave themselves about 6 or so months ago and then started doing that. Anyway, thanks, it's saved me heaps of time and frustration. Kathie "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Usual reason for this is having your Normal style set to "Automatically Update" - see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tedcontent.htm -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "kathiemt" wrote in message ... I have Word 2003 and I'm trying to write a big document. Whenever I bold a word or a sentence it changes the WHOLE document and takes a loooooong time to process it because it is many pages long. I've tried to find what setting is causing this - I can't find it. It really is very time consuming and I've given up trying to format as I type because it changes the whole thing time and time again. Why is it doing this???? I would be eternally grateful if someone knows the fix for this please - also, if you respond via the group, can you please also email me direct in case I don't come back here again for a week or so. I'm trying a few places to find an answer. Regards, and thanks, Kathie |
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Word is driving me crazy!
Glad to have helped. I don't know why it should have got turned on
automatically, but if you check both the boxes in the Modify dialog (Automatically Update and Update template) then I think you will probably write the setting to your Normal.dot. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "kathiemt" wrote in message ... Well, how simple was that? And yet I looked everywhere I could (in the regular menus) and couldn't find anything at all. What confuses me is why it started doing that? Did I inadvertently made a change to a normal document that made it start doing that for every document? Because my documents used to behave themselves about 6 or so months ago and then started doing that. Anyway, thanks, it's saved me heaps of time and frustration. Kathie "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Usual reason for this is having your Normal style set to "Automatically Update" - see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tedcontent.htm -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "kathiemt" wrote in message ... I have Word 2003 and I'm trying to write a big document. Whenever I bold a word or a sentence it changes the WHOLE document and takes a loooooong time to process it because it is many pages long. I've tried to find what setting is causing this - I can't find it. It really is very time consuming and I've given up trying to format as I type because it changes the whole thing time and time again. Why is it doing this???? I would be eternally grateful if someone knows the fix for this please - also, if you respond via the group, can you please also email me direct in case I don't come back here again for a week or so. I'm trying a few places to find an answer. Regards, and thanks, Kathie |
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Word is driving me crazy!
This is one of those settings that is almost certainly modified by a poorly
written add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Margaret Aldis" wrote in message ... Glad to have helped. I don't know why it should have got turned on automatically, but if you check both the boxes in the Modify dialog (Automatically Update and Update template) then I think you will probably write the setting to your Normal.dot. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "kathiemt" wrote in message ... Well, how simple was that? And yet I looked everywhere I could (in the regular menus) and couldn't find anything at all. What confuses me is why it started doing that? Did I inadvertently made a change to a normal document that made it start doing that for every document? Because my documents used to behave themselves about 6 or so months ago and then started doing that. Anyway, thanks, it's saved me heaps of time and frustration. Kathie "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Usual reason for this is having your Normal style set to "Automatically Update" - see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tedcontent.htm -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "kathiemt" wrote in message ... I have Word 2003 and I'm trying to write a big document. Whenever I bold a word or a sentence it changes the WHOLE document and takes a loooooong time to process it because it is many pages long. I've tried to find what setting is causing this - I can't find it. It really is very time consuming and I've given up trying to format as I type because it changes the whole thing time and time again. Why is it doing this???? I would be eternally grateful if someone knows the fix for this please - also, if you respond via the group, can you please also email me direct in case I don't come back here again for a week or so. I'm trying a few places to find an answer. Regards, and thanks, Kathie |
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