I have Office 2003; I can't format on-the-fly in any Word doc. Previous
editions allowed that, this doesn't. It's as if there is only one template, a
standard doc, and if I change any paragraph's format, it changes the whole
template, and my whole document. WHY???????

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm

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I have Office 2003; I can't format on-the-fly in any Word doc. Previous
editions allowed that, this doesn't. It's as if there is only one
template, a
standard doc, and if I change any paragraph's format, it changes the whole
template, and my whole document. WHY???????