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

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
A Peer in Peer to Peer Support

kbesel wrote:
In Word 2003, when I try to highlight and bold (or underline or
center, etc.) just one particular phrase of sentence, it makes the
change to the entire document. How do I turn this off? I've tried
turning off auto format and that doesn't seem to make a difference.