The problem is not necessarily with the Normal style. What other
styles (if any) are you using?

For a description of other possible problems with automatic
formatting, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm.

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Stefan Blom


"Dilemma" wrote in message
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Thanks Stefan but that doesn't work because the Automically update
style box
is not ticked in the first place?

The problem described is the same though.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Please see the following article:

"Formatting applied to one paragraph affects the entire document"
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm

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Stefan Blom


"Dilemma" wrote in message
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Steps involved a

I'm writing up a document from the normal template. I highlight
some
text to
make it bold and then the WHOLE document (including headers etc)
go
bold.
Same happens with bullets or numbers and indenting.

"Dilemma" wrote:

How do you turn this really annoying feature off, the help
menu is
of no use
on thise topic? Once I work that out I might ask why the hell
anyone would
want to use it anyway?????