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Bold, Italics and Underline not turning on
Recently, the "on the fly" bolding, italiczing and underlining stopped
working on all my documents. What I mean is that if while I am typing a document, press Ctrl+B, U or I, the button on the toolbar appears to show that I pressed the key but then it immediately turns itself off. It does the same thing if I click on the button on the toolbar. However, if I select the text first then press Ctrl+B, it bolds the text. Is there an option that I may have inadvertently set. Please help. |
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When you click one of these buttons or press one of the shortcuts, you are
doing one of two things: 1. Applying the formatting to selected text. 2. Applying the formatting to any text you type from that point on. In some versions of Word, it is sufficient to click in a word and press Ctrl+B to bold it; this does not work in recent versions unless you have "When selecting, automatically select entire word" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options (and this option can cause problems in selecting parts of words, so I prefer to leave it unchecked). You can still select the word by double-clicking. -- 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. "rocketman60" wrote in message ... Recently, the "on the fly" bolding, italiczing and underlining stopped working on all my documents. What I mean is that if while I am typing a document, press Ctrl+B, U or I, the button on the toolbar appears to show that I pressed the key but then it immediately turns itself off. It does the same thing if I click on the button on the toolbar. However, if I select the text first then press Ctrl+B, it bolds the text. Is there an option that I may have inadvertently set. Please help. |
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It is unchecked but my issue is that when I press the bold keystroke it does
not "turn on" the bolding to be applied to any text I type from that point forward. I have to type the text, select it and then apply the formatting. I have been using Word for years and have never encountered this. If this is not behavior due to some setting then maybe I have a bad file somewhere and need to reinstall Word. Larry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you click one of these buttons or press one of the shortcuts, you are doing one of two things: 1. Applying the formatting to selected text. 2. Applying the formatting to any text you type from that point on. In some versions of Word, it is sufficient to click in a word and press Ctrl+B to bold it; this does not work in recent versions unless you have "When selecting, automatically select entire word" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options (and this option can cause problems in selecting parts of words, so I prefer to leave it unchecked). You can still select the word by double-clicking. -- 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. "rocketman60" wrote in message ... Recently, the "on the fly" bolding, italiczing and underlining stopped working on all my documents. What I mean is that if while I am typing a document, press Ctrl+B, U or I, the button on the toolbar appears to show that I pressed the key but then it immediately turns itself off. It does the same thing if I click on the button on the toolbar. However, if I select the text first then press Ctrl+B, it bolds the text. Is there an option that I may have inadvertently set. Please help. |
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Figured it out. My normal.dot was corrupt. Thanks!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you click one of these buttons or press one of the shortcuts, you are doing one of two things: 1. Applying the formatting to selected text. 2. Applying the formatting to any text you type from that point on. In some versions of Word, it is sufficient to click in a word and press Ctrl+B to bold it; this does not work in recent versions unless you have "When selecting, automatically select entire word" checked on the Edit tab of Tools | Options (and this option can cause problems in selecting parts of words, so I prefer to leave it unchecked). You can still select the word by double-clicking. -- 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. "rocketman60" wrote in message ... Recently, the "on the fly" bolding, italiczing and underlining stopped working on all my documents. What I mean is that if while I am typing a document, press Ctrl+B, U or I, the button on the toolbar appears to show that I pressed the key but then it immediately turns itself off. It does the same thing if I click on the button on the toolbar. However, if I select the text first then press Ctrl+B, it bolds the text. Is there an option that I may have inadvertently set. Please help. |
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