Nick Hebb wrote:
From Tools=Customize=Commands use the Drawing
category and drag the 'Select Multiple Objects'
command to the Drawing toolbar and place it next
to the White Arrow (Select object) command.

Use the new command and select all of the items
you want to change then apply the change.

This is one of my pet peeves with drawing autoshapes in Word.
Selecting multiple objects will let you change the lines and fill,
but you can't change the text formatting for more than one autoshape
at once.

Did Microsoft change this capability in Word 2003? I wrote up a piece
on this he http://www.breezetree.com/article_excelvsword.htm#tip2.
But I'm using Office XP, so if this is incorrect in Word 2003 I'd
appreciate some feedback so I can make the correction.

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Nick Hebb
BreezeTree Software
http://www.breezetree.com

In either version, define a character style with the format you want. Select
all the autoshapes and apply the character style. After that you can change
the formatting in all autoshapes just by modifying the style.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org