[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You are a bit off-topic for this newsgroup, but in the FormatStyle dialog
there is a box for Automatically Update Styles that you should uncheck.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"las" wrote in message
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When I create a NEW Word 2003 document and want to change the font or
bold/center, etc. specific text, it changes ALL text (not just highlighted
text). Can anyone explain this?? It just started happening recently. It
is
very frustrating. I am going to uninstall program and then reinstall it
to
see if this fixes the problem. Any other suggestions are appreciated.
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las