[Stressed Secretary]

Suddenly whenever I try to apply formatting eg underline, bold, bulleting to
a piece of highlighted text in a Word doc - the whole doc is automatically
formatted. I can undo to get just the highlighted text formatted as I wanted
- but it is driving me mad - can anyone advise on how to revert back so
formatting will be applied just to highlighted text.

[Summer]

The current style be it Normal or Heading 1, Heading 2 or whatever has
"automatically update" checked -

Go to Menu - Format Styles and Modify the current style which is probably
"Normal".
Just uncheck it
Check box "Add to Template"
OK

That's why it is updating whole document.
Hope this helps the stress levels

"Stressed Secretary" Stressed wrote in
message ...
Suddenly whenever I try to apply formatting eg underline, bold, bulleting
to
a piece of highlighted text in a Word doc - the whole doc is automatically
formatted. I can undo to get just the highlighted text formatted as I
wanted
- but it is driving me mad - can anyone advise on how to revert back so
formatting will be applied just to highlighted text.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Stressed Secretary" Stressed wrote in
message ...
Suddenly whenever I try to apply formatting eg underline, bold, bulleting
to
a piece of highlighted text in a Word doc - the whole doc is automatically
formatted. I can undo to get just the highlighted text formatted as I
wanted
- but it is driving me mad - can anyone advise on how to revert back so
formatting will be applied just to highlighted text.