I'm at my wit's end with Word. I'm using Pro 2003 and I'm literally
ready to throw it away and go back to a typewriter.

Why does the use of styles and formatting have to be so frustrating?

Ok, first page of my document has a huge one-word title centered on it,
under it is a centered subtitle. After that, I added a new page break
to go to page two of the document. On page two, the formatting is still
set to the what the subtitle was on the previous page. Any changes I
make on the second page to the text formatting is applied to the title
and subtitle of the first page, and no matter what I do, I cannot get
it to stop doing this, and I'm getting just a little upset.

In other documents, this behavior has wrecked pages upon pages of my
work. I make one change to the text format, like the justification, and
dozens of pages get changed. Is there any way for Word to understand
that I just want to change the formatting WHERE MY CURSOR IS and not
the entire document?!

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


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Aaron wrote:
I'm at my wit's end with Word. I'm using Pro 2003 and I'm literally
ready to throw it away and go back to a typewriter.

Why does the use of styles and formatting have to be so frustrating?

Ok, first page of my document has a huge one-word title centered on
it, under it is a centered subtitle. After that, I added a new page
break to go to page two of the document. On page two, the formatting
is still set to the what the subtitle was on the previous page. Any
changes I make on the second page to the text formatting is applied
to the title and subtitle of the first page, and no matter what I do,
I cannot get it to stop doing this, and I'm getting just a little
upset.

In other documents, this behavior has wrecked pages upon pages of my
work. I make one change to the text format, like the justification,
and dozens of pages get changed. Is there any way for Word to
understand that I just want to change the formatting WHERE MY CURSOR
IS and not the entire document?!