I have a selection of text with several words in bold text. I would like to
change all those words to Not-bold. However, if I use the Bold toolbar
button, it toggles everything in the selection, changing the bold parts to
not-bold, and the not-bold parts to bold. Clicking the button again just
causes the opposite parts to seesaw back and forth, never to be the same. I
am forced to select each bold part separately or bring up the Find/Replace
dialog.
In previous versions of Word, the formatting toolbar buttons would change
the entire selection based on the beginning of the selection. Ie: if the
first letter of the selection was not bold, the toolbar button would make the
entire selection bold. This was very handy if a few stray words scattered in
a selection needed changed.

Is there an Option setting that can change this?

Thanks,
Duane

Hi Duane,

Strange: Works the same as ever for me (Word2003).

The behaviour you describe does sound familiar somehow, but right now I
can't think of an explanation why or when it might act as a toggle for mixed
(bold/regular) text. Maybe it did in Word2002 and they changed it back?

If you click Alt + Ctrl + Num+ (Num+ = "+" key on the numeric keypad), and
then click on the *B*old button, does it say the command is "Bold"?

As a work-around (if you don't want to keep other manual formatting), you
could use Ctrl+Spacebar before applying "Bold".
Or you could try a macro:

Sub Bold()
' should intercept the Bold button and Ctrl+B automatically
Selection.Font.Bold=wdToggle
End Sub

Regards,
Klaus


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I have a selection of text with several words in bold text. I would like
to
change all those words to Not-bold. However, if I use the Bold toolbar
button, it toggles everything in the selection, changing the bold parts to
not-bold, and the not-bold parts to bold. Clicking the button again just
causes the opposite parts to seesaw back and forth, never to be the same.
I
am forced to select each bold part separately or bring up the Find/Replace
dialog.
In previous versions of Word, the formatting toolbar buttons would change
the entire selection based on the beginning of the selection. Ie: if the
first letter of the selection was not bold, the toolbar button would make
the
entire selection bold. This was very handy if a few stray words scattered
in
a selection needed changed.

Is there an Option setting that can change this?

Thanks,
Duane